Excerpt from Narrative of the Town of Machias: The Old and the New, the Early and the Late Here, where they died their hurried records live, Silent they speak from out the sacred past. Our acknowledgments are due Senator Eugene Hale; to Assistant Secretary of State Hon. Alvey A. Adee Washing ton, D. O. Frederic Tuckerman, Esq., Amherst, Mass. Hon. Geo. F. Talbot. Portland; Miss Annette o'b. Walker, same city, Rev. H. F. Harding and Mrs. Harding Machias and other appreciated helpers. 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.