. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE. lUu^trateti. We take no note of timeBut from its loss. To give it then a tongueIs wise in man. ^w. H\r^ •co BOSTON:JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1874. ^^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY JAMES K. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.;Cambridge. -=r k ij mVITATIOX TO THE EEADER. THIS is neither a county history nor a relation of con-
. Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex. HISTORIC FIELDS AND MANSIONS OF MIDDLESEX By SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE. lUu^trateti. We take no note of timeBut from its loss. To give it then a tongueIs wise in man. ^w. H\r^ •co BOSTON:JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1874. ^^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, BY JAMES K. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.;Cambridge. -=r k ij mVITATIOX TO THE EEADER. THIS is neither a county history nor a relation of con-secutive events, but a series of historic-colloquial ram-among the memorable places of Old Middlesex. Arm•irm we thread the Colonial highways, reading histor}^,•ejounting traditions, and discussing men and events withmuch freedom, — challenging as we go the dwellings offormer generations to yield up- their secrets, not indeedto reproduce spectres, bat living objects,—rehabilitating theOld and arraying it beside the Newhistoricfieldsma01drak
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