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Jonathan Belcher (1681/2-1757) was born the son of a Massachusetts tavernkeeper. Once his father, Captain Andrew Belcher, got into shipping, however, he soon became one of the wealthiest men in New England who could afford to send his son to Harvard and then on a tour of Europe. Jonathan set sail in 1704 to England where he first spent time researching his family history. He then traveled through Holland and Germany, keeping a journal, which i...

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Excerpt from Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West TennesseeHaving thus resolved upon a preface, I will write as long as my humour prompts, or until the fit under which I am now labouring wears off.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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I took my tomahawk in one hand, and my big butcher-knife in the other, and run up within four or five paces of the bear, at which he let my dog go, and fixed his eyes on me. I got back in all sorts of a hurry, for I know'd if he got hold of me, he would hug me altogether too close for comfort." Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own frontier style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two ...

Excerpt from Autobiography of David CrockettAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 ori...

Excerpt from The Life of Martin Van Buren: Heir-Apparent to the "Government, " and the Appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson, Containing Every Authentic Particular by Which His Extraordinary Character Has Been Formed, With a Concise History of the Events That Have Occasioned His UnparalleleStatesmen are gamesters, and the people are the cards they play with. And it is curious to see how good the comparison holds as to all the games, th...

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