Excerpt from The Gardner Family: Pioneer Settlers in Salem, Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, Vassallborough, Maine, Paulus Hook, (Jersey City) N. J During Thomas Gardner's young life the explorations along the New England Coast became more frequent and eccording to Henry F. Rowe's Prologue to New England, all of the reports of the returned explorers emphasized the great value there would be in the fishing industry, even more so than at the celebrated Newfoundland fishing grounds. 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.