Proceedings at the Celebration of the Restoration of the Birth Place House of Daniel Webster at the Birth Place in Franklin, New Hampshire, on August 28, 1913 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Celebration of the Restoration of the Birth Place House of Daniel Webster at the Birth Place in Franklin, New Hampshire, on August 28, 1913 Some one hundred and fifty years ago at the close of the French and Indian war, Ebenezer Webster who had been one of the Rogers Rangers in that war, just attaining his majority and just married, sought a home. He pushed up the Merrimack to the land which he later in life acquired, the Elms Farm of Daniel Webster, the Orphans' Home Farm of today. Here he turned into the hills and followed the brook which runs before us until he came to the Beaver Meadows which lie to the south, in miniature an intervale like the intervale by the river. Here he made his pitch and built the settler's cabin of logs. Beyond to the north was the forest and the savage: Here for fifteen years Webster's father held a post on the border line of civiliza tion, his house the last upon the Indian trail to Canada. The site of the cabin is indicated by the boulder upon the opposite side of the road. Later a frame house in which Webster was born was built where the house stands restored today. 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.