Excerpt from History Topsfield Massachusetts For over forty years the author collected material relating to Topsfield with the intention of publishing a comprehensive history of the town. At the time of his death he had outlined the work and written many of the chapters. It has been my privilege to carry on the work with the assistance of a group of w.p.a. Workers and Miss Ruth H. Allen who has written the remaining chapters. I have edited the manuscript, pre pared the index and read the proofs. Much information was gleaned from the Probate and Quart erly Court Records of Essex County, and the lists of soldiers in the French and Indian wars and the Revolution were care fully checked with the rolls in the Massachusetts State Archives. It is hoped that it may be possible at some future time to print the chapters on houses and lands and on the families of Topsfield which have been so carefully prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.