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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the First Settlement of Salem, in West Jersey, by John Fenwick, Chief Proprietor of the Same: With Many of the Important Events That Have Occurred, Down to the Present Generation, Embracing a Period of One Hundred and Fifty Years
MY friends and N eighbors, - I present myself before you at this time in compliance with a desire expressed by the members of a literary society, late ly instituted in this town, that I would address you upon such a subject as might be most agreeable to myself. I willingly assent thereto, and am disposed cheerfully to afford such information, considering the precarious state of my health, as from my memory and such other sources as I can obtain. I shall therefore crave your serious attention, while I endeavor to carry your recollections through a long succession of time, Viz: from the year 1663, to about 1830 an epoch, which I hope will not be an unacceptable narration to my audience, whilei shall endeavor to relate the most important events which had taken place in our country within those periods. 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.
