Excerpt from Life of Nathan B. Forrest One end of the cabin was taken up with a broad fireplace where huge logs cut from the forest trees were burned. Around the house was a cleared space of sev eral acres, fenced with rails; a part of it was orchard and garden, the rest, cornfield. Across the road from the cabin stood a log blacksmith shop, from which' all day long came the clink of a hammer as William Forrest, the father of Bedford, - the name by which the son was usually called, - worked at his trade. William Forrest ...
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Excerpt from Life of Nathan B. Forrest One end of the cabin was taken up with a broad fireplace where huge logs cut from the forest trees were burned. Around the house was a cleared space of sev eral acres, fenced with rails; a part of it was orchard and garden, the rest, cornfield. Across the road from the cabin stood a log blacksmith shop, from which' all day long came the clink of a hammer as William Forrest, the father of Bedford, - the name by which the son was usually called, - worked at his trade. William Forrest was a pioneer, as were his fathers before him. The first of these of whom we have knowledge Was Shadrach Forrest, who moved from Virginia to North Carolina about 1740. When the settlements extended west ward the Forrests went with them, and William Forrest was taken to middle Tennessee as a small boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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