History of Northampton, Massachusetts, Vol. 1: From Its Settlement in 1654 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Russell Trumbull, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330965116 ISBN 13: 9781330965115

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from History of Northampton, Massachusetts, Vol. 1: From Its Settlement in 1654 The written history of a community may be found in its Town, Church and Parish records; in the public and private correspondence and papers of its citizens; and in the County, State and National archives. Its unwritten history is shadowed in the lives, acts, opinions and traditions of the people. From these sources the historian gathers his materials, combining and weaving them into connected narrative. Tradition is but a side light, the flashing of whose uncertain rays dazzles and bewilders rather than illuminates the truth. Yet it has its uses, and may not be altogether overlooked. Based upon the records of the town, treated in chronological order, and supplemented by such other documentary evidence as it has been possible to obtain, the volumes of this work are intended to present in some degree a connected history of this community during the first century and a half of its existence. This method of treatment, while it shows more consecutively. perhaps, the material, moral, social, religious, educational and political progress of the town, involves to some extent a repetition of topics, though not necessarily a reproduction of facts. The History of Northampton contains much that is of interest to the beginnings of the towns in this section. In fact, all the plantations here had much in common. Many of the inhabitants of the later settled towns, joined by kinship of blood as well as contiguity of residence, were emigrants from the elder settlement. This community of interest unites the history of the older with that of the more recently established towns, and renders necessary frequent allusions to the neighboring plantations. Most important in the construction of this work has been the Mss. collection of the late Sylvester Judd. He employed many years of his life in gathering material relating to the early history of Northampton and other towns in this valley. This Mss. now i

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330965116
• ISBN 13: 9781330965115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656