History of the Town of Windham

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Excerpt from History of the Town of Windham: Prepared at the Request of the TownAccuracy should be the paramount object of the historian. However desirous he may be to attain this object, it is seldom, if ever accomplished. He may relate with sufficient accuracy, such transactions as occur within his knowledge when he goes beyond this to relate transactions, especially those of long standing, he must have recourse to written or traditional history. These, it is well known, are not always free from errors. Another obstacle he has to encounter, arises from the different manner in which different individ uals describe the same transaction. No two of Napoleon's generals described his battles alike, and he different from all his generals.The tendency of these errors and discrepancies is to embarrass and mislead the historian. If the information derived from these sources is erroneous, he transfers them to and they become a part of his work, and are thereby transmitted to posterity.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.