Excerpt from Proceedings at the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Parish at Salem Village, Now Danvers, October 8, 1872: With an Historical Address There has been an unavoidable delay in the preparation of these materials for the press. Since the day of the celebra tion, the Historical Address has been much enlarged and it has been revised repeatedly with very great care. The work having been once reluctantly undertaken, I was unwilling to leave it until it had been done, if not in fulness, yet with somewhat of thoroughness, so far as it might reach. How much of time is required for such a purpose, and with results so little to be noticed by an ordinary reader, they only w'ilo have been engaged in a like employment can understand. There have been with me, also, frequent calls to other work, besides the ample occupations of the pastoral office. 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.