Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from 200th Anniversary of Settlement, 1761-1961; Annual Reports of the Town and School District Officers of Andover, New Hampshire: For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1960, and Those of the East Andover Fire Precinct, Andover Village District
Only a few years before his arrival two men from Stevenstown, now Salisbury, which had a few inhabitants before Andover, were captured by the St. Francis Indians while cutting wild hay in this same meadow and carried off as captives to Canada. By 1761 the French and Indian War was over, and Joseph Fellows became the first of a group of hardy pioneers to settle in what is now Andover. During that first spring and summer Mr. Fellows clear ed away a little land, built a log cabin and raised a patch of corn. In the fall he returned to Kingston to bring his wife Margaret, a young child, a baby and a dog, to their new home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
