History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . part of the State that did not send its sonsinto onr armies to tight the battles for independence, numbers of whom perishedon the field or fell victims to the diseases and hardships of camp-life. Is it toolate to rescue the names of these heroic men from oblivion? And then thattrouble known as Shays rebellion, wliich followed so soon after the war of theRevolution,—are there not some traditions to be gathered concerning it whichhave found no record in the
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . part of the State that did not send its sonsinto onr armies to tight the battles for independence, numbers of whom perishedon the field or fell victims to the diseases and hardships of camp-life. Is it toolate to rescue the names of these heroic men from oblivion? And then thattrouble known as Shays rebellion, wliich followed so soon after the war of theRevolution,—are there not some traditions to be gathered concerning it whichhave found no record in the pages of Minot or any other aunjilist ? It is not, however, in walS and tunnilts alone that the true antiriuarianwill seek subjects for his diligent study. The multifarious transactions of civillife, in whiih the men who have passed from among us took part,—trans-actions which iu their time attracted geneial attention and interest; nay, thevery men tliemselves, the actors in these transactions, who in the two centuriesbefore t!ie present, atid some even in the present century, planned and organ- * By Kev. William Bice,
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