A Historical Sketch of Auburn, Massachusetts

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Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of Auburn, Massachusetts: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day With Brief Accounts of Early Settlers and Prominent CitizensWho the first white man was to look across the quiet hills and the valleys of Auburn and see the glow of a camp fire at the Indian village on Pakachoag Hill is n0t known. The earliest record now extant is the account written by Daniel Gookin in the Historical Collection: of the Indians in New England, of a trip made with the Reverend John Eliot, in 1674, to the Christian Indians who had been converted some time before, and who numbered about twenty families, or one hundred souls. It was ou. The 17th of the seventh month that they arrived at the village on the fertile hill called Rakachoag after the delicate spring of water that is there.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.