Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Narrative, Embracing the History of Two or Three of the First Settlers and Their Families of Schenectady: Interspersed With a Few Anecdotal Eccentricities and Antiquities, Together With a Description of the Winter Evening Visits, Recreations, and Supper, and of the Tea-Parties of Olden Times, With a Few Strictures on the Change of Times
Although the field of inquiry appears tobe gloomy and dark I shall endeavor to bring it to a satisfactory result; and in do ing this, I may hazard the suspicion of a desire to attach the character and name of my family to the skirts and sleeves of personages of high sounding titles and stations, who naturally move in the higher crrcles; but far otherwise. I can assure my readers that in consequence of the sterility of my resources I have no other alternative, and am willing to confess the oh scurity of my family at the present time, and that my whole object is to relieve the present generation from their ignor ance of the origin of their ancestors, and the generations to follow or to come.
We will now commence tracing the name of Toll in the higher fields of story and history, where there was ample scope to obtain fame and renown, or to lose that reputation which it might have been'in possession of.
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