Excerpt from History of the Town of Hawley, Franklin County, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement in 1771 to 1887: With Family Records and Biographical Sketches In the arrangement of the work, the matter is unavoidably somewhat mixed, as material was constantly arriving after other matter of a kin dred nature was in print. The family records, as furnished by the town records, are very incomplete, and in many cases disagree u itll records furnished by families themselves, but correctness has been the aim; oth ers could have done better - if they would - but the lot fell on us. 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.