Excerpt from Norman Constables in America, Vol. 8: Read Before the New England Historic, Genealogical Society, February 1, 1882 Along'this line of march, over old roads into new fields, American Institutional History will one day advance. It is the purpose of a little company of graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University fb reconnoitre the ground.1 They are now studying upon cooper ative and, to some extent, upon representative principles, the local institutions of their respective states or sections of country. A few students represent Maryland; others Virginia, the Carolinas, Ken tucky, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. One man has entered the field of Ohio; others, that of Michigan and the Northwest, where English institutions were planted upon French soil. A student from Canada will investigate the Anglo French institutions of his Province. The writer of this monograph is studying the origin of the town institutions of New England, and presents the following research upon Constables as a contribution to the main subject. 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.