Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Unitarian Church, in Uxbridge, Mass: In 1864, With Further Statements, Not Made a Part of the Address, but Included in the Notes IN the winter of 1863 - 4, Mr. Chapin was invited to deliver a lecture in Uxbridge, in the course given for the benefit Of the First Congregational Church. He selected the early history Of the town, in which he took great interest, for his subject, and collected so much valuable material in relating it, that some Of the public spirited citizens felt it to be very desirable that the information thus Obtained should be preserved in a per manent form, and requested him, some four years since, to give them his manuscript for publication. He consented, but wished to render it more valuable by the addition of various details equally worthy Of record, which would have made his lecture too long for delivery, and others that have Since come to his knowledge. His illness and subsequent death prevented him from preparing the work for the press and in the spring Of 1879 it was intrusted to me, and was immediately entered upon as a sacred trust. The address as originally delivered, the notes which Judge Chapin was engaged in preparing, and the title page he had written, are now presented to those specially interested in the matters here spoken of. 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.