Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Views of Polytechnic Institute, Worcester INTRODUCTORY ix in other cases, various representativesjof a family are at disagreement as to names and datesof some of their forbears. In all cases the sketch has been submitted to the subject or hisrepresentative, and upon him, in case of error, must rest the ultimate responsibility. It is believed that the^present work will prove a real addition to the mass of litera-ture concerning the familie
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Views of Polytechnic Institute, Worcester INTRODUCTORY ix in other cases, various representativesjof a family are at disagreement as to names and datesof some of their forbears. In all cases the sketch has been submitted to the subject or hisrepresentative, and upon him, in case of error, must rest the ultimate responsibility. It is believed that the^present work will prove a real addition to the mass of litera-ture concerning the families of historic old Worcester county, and that, without it, muchvaluable contained] therein would be inaccessible to the general reader, orirretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of many custodians of family records, and theconsequent disappearance of material in their possession. THE PUBLISHERS. WOllCESIEIi SOCIEiy OF A\TIOIjITy ]T. On the third day of May, 1775, was issuedthe first copy of the Massac/iusctts Spy, printedin Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas, since whichdate this town (now city), the heart of theCommonwealth, has been a prominent newscenter. Worcester has also been a great bookpublishing center, The Royal StandardEnglish Dictionary (Perrys), the first dict-ionary published in America, was printed here=--^^ ^_ by ]\/[r_ Thomas, as was also the first music books printed from types, music having been Worcester Society of Antiquity . , . ^ , . previously printed from engraved editions of dictionaries, lexicons, Bibles, medical works, law books and standardworks in history and general literature, were printed and kept on sale here. The Koranwas printed here in 1806, a Greek Lexicon in 1808; Plutarchs Lives, in six volumes(1802); JosephuS, in six volumes (1794). A folio edition of the Bible published in 1791,illustrated with fifty copper-plate engravings, furnishes a fine specimen of the work
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