Excerpt from The Story of Godfrey Nims: As Read to the Nims Family Association, at Deerfield, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1914 Children of his children, we have come home to tread the soil upon which fell the sweat, tears and blood of our fathers and mothers in those early days of labor, suffering and savage murder. Periods of calm there were too, when the spinning wheels hummed in the primitive homes of this little village and the scythes swung and swished in the golden fields out yonder, and the settlers forgot for a time that the dark bordering for ests hid wild beasts formed as men but fierce as fiends. Here, Godfrey Nims builded - and, after fire devoured it, build-ed anew-his home, as pioneers have built and will build while there shall remain a frontier; and he and those about his hearth loved it as we love that for which we have planned and worked. As our minds revive the personality of our com mon ancestor, that common blood which inseparably links us should thrill in our veins. This Nims lot was, not so long ago the stage upon which was enacted one of those pioneer tragedies too blood-curdling and awful to adequately picture in words the naked Indians - painted demons - slaughtering children by the lurid light of a flaring home, amid the din of savage yells and the shrieks of terrified women and of children butchered or burned. 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.