This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...by the wayside and refreshed himself for the return journey. He remembers yet how slow and toilsome was his progress over the sandy road near the corner where the four towns, Hollis, Amherst, Milford and Merrimac meet, and how he took a short rest at Joseph Patch's store. He has not forgotten, either, how his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...by the wayside and refreshed himself for the return journey. He remembers yet how slow and toilsome was his progress over the sandy road near the corner where the four towns, Hollis, Amherst, Milford and Merrimac meet, and how he took a short rest at Joseph Patch's store. He has not forgotten, either, how his weary legs and arms ached when he at last reached Mr. Gould's store and laid the bundle gladly down on the counter. The years since then have turned the boy's brown hair white, and he has long dwelt far from the scenes of his childhood, but among the most vivid of his "recollections of seventy years ago" is that of his long walk for those fifty-two copies of The Farmers' Cabinet. In the family of Nehemiah Woods were five sons and two or more daughters, but all left Hollis about 1826. In 1840 the oldest son, Nehemiah Park Woods, was commanding a steamer on the Mississippi. James, better known in Hollis as "Jim" Woods, I saw in the territory of Iowa, a full-fledged lawyer, in 1840. He resided in Iowa until his death, a few years ago. At that time he was the oldest practicing lawyer in that state and was well known there. Now that I am in the vicinity of the Price house, I am reminded that Gibson Jewett began to build, but was unable to finish it, and Mr. Price of Boston, one of his creditors, completed it. In addition to house and store, he made what was for the time a fine hall for public gatherings. Perhaps it was the hall that suggested to the young people the idea of a dancing school, though the religious sentiment of the community was against dancing. A Mr. Francis Radoux, a Frenchman from Boston, was engaged as teacher, and a class was formed of a select number of chosen ones, others being refused admittance. This...
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