Excerpt from Westfield, and Its Historic Influences, 1669-1919: The Life of an Early Town, With a Survey of Events in New England and Bordering Regions to Which It Was Related in Colonial and Revolutionary Times Town histories vary in plan and scope. My determination has been to maintain a broad outlook upon incidents, affairs, and tendencies, in order that the annals of the town might be presented not alone in their local significance, but also in their relation to the wider field of Colonial and Revolutionary Massachusetts Hence my title. In prosecuting my task I have gathered and fully prepared for publication a vast amount of material not included herein. Reduced as it is, I may be fairly accused of undue prolixity. 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.