Excerpt from History of the Town of Canton At the manual town meeting, held April, 1888, the following vote was passed: - "Voted, That the town cause to be. published the history of the town, prepared by the late Daniel T. V. Huntoon, with such additions thereto, and such omissions therefrom, as may be deemed expedient, and that a committee of three be appointed by the moderator to superintend the publication; that the committee be authorized to employ some suitable person to edit the work; that one thousand copies be printed, five hundred (500) of which shall be bound, and offered for sale, at a price not exceeding $3.00 per volume, the proceeds of all sales to be paid into the treasury of the town; and that thirty-five hundred (3500) dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to defray the expense of publication and proper editing of the work; and that ten copies be given to the family of Mr. Huntoon, who have so kindly offered the manuscript for publication. "The moderator appointed as committee on history William E. Endicott, Henry F. Buswell, and Charles H. French, Jr. "Voted, That said sum of thirty-five hundred dollars be not all assessed in one year, but be raised in equal parts for two, three, or four years at the discretion of the selectmen." Immediately upon their appointment, the committee began the work assigned them, by reading through the manuscript left by Mr. Huntoon, - a work which occupied them during nearly one hundred meetings. 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.