The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . tly kept small books of hispersonal expenses, copies innumerableof local and government papers, year-ly files of bills and receipts, accountsand contracts connected with theMethodist church, papers relating tohis administration of several estates—a wonderful record of his faithfulstewardship of the affairs of his fellowmen. I have attempted no extended historyof his life, nor any eulogy of his hon-ored name, but have tried, in connec-tion with this memorial, and fromwritten and spoken words, simply toshow to his childrens children here,and to you his suc
The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . tly kept small books of hispersonal expenses, copies innumerableof local and government papers, year-ly files of bills and receipts, accountsand contracts connected with theMethodist church, papers relating tohis administration of several estates—a wonderful record of his faithfulstewardship of the affairs of his fellowmen. I have attempted no extended historyof his life, nor any eulogy of his hon-ored name, but have tried, in connec-tion with this memorial, and fromwritten and spoken words, simply toshow to his childrens children here,and to you his successors in thishousehold of faith, the personality ofthe man himself. Would that Tcould also make plain to you what [have read between the lines of thesepapers committed to my care, than all, the fragrance, so realto me, that has exhaled from thosedusty and worm-eaten records of ajust life. REBECCA WILLIAMS HAWES, * 13 Do as you judge best in all matters,I trust you entirely. In a letter to John Hawes from Thomas Hazard, OLD DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL SKETCHES No. 23 Being the proceedings of the Twenty-second Meeting of the Old Dart-mouth Historical Society, held in their building, Water Street, NewBedford, Massachusetts, on January 12, 1909. THE VILLAGES OF DARTMOUTH IN THE BRITISHRAID OF 1778. Compiled by Henry Howland Crapo in 1839-40 [Note.—The Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches will be published by thesociety quarterly and may be purchased for ten cents each on application to theSecretary and also at Hutchinsons Book Store. .*;- \ :)? I \ f / / P HENRY HOWUND CRAPO1S04-1S69. PROCEEDINGS TWENTY-FIRST MEETING Old Dartmouth Historical Society IN THEIR BUILDING WATER STREET, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS JANUARY I 2, I9O9. The Old Dartmouth Historical So-cietys regular quarterly meetingproved of exceptional interest to themembers. The feature was the an-nouncement of the discovery, byWilliam W. Crapo, of a series of his-torical sketches of early New Bedford,written by
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