History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts

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Excerpt from History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts: With Genealogies and Notes on Persons and EstatesThis book was not designed to afford literary entertainment, or to give what have so often been set forth in town histories, pictures of old-time life, and tradition, which in the eyes of many would have made the work more attractive, has, in the main, been discarded. Charles Reade expressed the general sentiment of modern historians when he wrote No one can approach the history of perhaps any age without finding that the truth is all but buried under mountains of chaff and dirt. The prominent facts in the Town's annals are herein given as gathered from the archives of the State, County and Town, Church and Society records, etc., with little of comment or elaboration. Oxford being among the earliest of the Worcester County settlements, materials were found to be abundant, and many pages show the constraint thus placed on the writer and the necessity for brief and summary treatment. And yet a full history of the town is an impossibility, because so much not within the scope of records has lapsed in the unknown past.The story of the French Colony has been chie¿y reproduced from the author's monograph published ten years ago.The history of the homesteads, an unusual feature of works of this kind, will serve not only to determine the localities of ancestral domains, but, perhaps, as no other means can, to bring up in review the personality of the long procession of those who have lived, toiled and passed away within the town in the last two hundred years.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.