A history of Natick, from its first settlement in 1651 to the present time; with notices of the first white families, and also an account of the centennial celebration, Oct16, 1851, RevMrHunt's address at the consecration of Dell Park cemetery, & . dswhose eyes will never rest on these pages. The thoughts of manywill ever recur with pleasure, to the image that memory paints on themind, of the now absent forms of an Atkins, a Morse, a Walcott, anda Leland. It has been the fortune of some citizens to occupy a moreconspicuous, though perhaps not a more useful, station than one can pe
A history of Natick, from its first settlement in 1651 to the present time; with notices of the first white families, and also an account of the centennial celebration, Oct16, 1851, RevMrHunt's address at the consecration of Dell Park cemetery, & . dswhose eyes will never rest on these pages. The thoughts of manywill ever recur with pleasure, to the image that memory paints on themind, of the now absent forms of an Atkins, a Morse, a Walcott, anda Leland. It has been the fortune of some citizens to occupy a moreconspicuous, though perhaps not a more useful, station than one can peruse the records of the town, for the thirty yearslast past, without knowing that some careful hand has been busy formany hours in arranging and neatly noting each act and appropria-tion. No one will need be told that it is the hand of Hon. ChesterAdams, to whom they have so often given their willing suffrages forevery important office in town, and who still survives to cheer theyounger and more vigorous friends of order with his counsel and hissmile. He was born in Bristol, Hartford County, Conn., in the year 1785 ;removed to Dedham, Mass., in 1799, and resided in that town andin Needham, until 1821. He was a minute-man during the war of ,Jfc.
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