Excerpt from Publishments, Marriages, Births and Deaths From the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine The monument is of. Brown stone, not quarried in this vicinity. It has been moved twice, but has always stood in Meeting House Square. In 1886 the lettering having become somewhat effaced by time was recut, the letters gilded and the monument set upon a new granite base in its present position. 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.