History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . ; 0 014 079 098 9. i^i t~ I?) If JMEMORY OF plrs. Itiilxlalx Ijtarris gawiels^ WHOSE LONG LIFE AND RETENTIVE MIND ENABLED HER TO RENDER INVALUABLE AID IN THE PREPARATION OK THE FOLLOWING PAGES, THIS VOLUME IS Affectionately ^edinvtcrt. h PREFACE. This book was not designed to afford literary entertainment,or to give what liave so often been set forth in town histories,pictures of old-time life, and tradition, which in the eyes ofmany would have made the work more attractive, has,
History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . ; 0 014 079 098 9. i^i t~ I?) If JMEMORY OF plrs. Itiilxlalx Ijtarris gawiels^ WHOSE LONG LIFE AND RETENTIVE MIND ENABLED HER TO RENDER INVALUABLE AID IN THE PREPARATION OK THE FOLLOWING PAGES, THIS VOLUME IS Affectionately ^edinvtcrt. h PREFACE. This book was not designed to afford literary entertainment,or to give what liave so often been set forth in town histories,pictures of old-time life, and tradition, which in the eyes ofmany would have made the work more attractive, has, in themain, been discarded. Charles Reade expressed the generalsentiment of modern historians when he wrote: No one canapproach the history of perhaps any age without finding thatthe truth is all but buried under mountains of chaff and prominent facts in the Towns annals are herein given asgathered from the archives of the State, County and Town,Church and Society records, etc., with little of comment orelaboration. Oxford being among the earliest of the WorcesterCounty settlements, materials were found to be abundant,historyoftownofo00dani
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