Excerpt from History of Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1656-1894It is the high privilege of history to exhibit a retrospective View of mankind, to present to the enquiring mind a faithful representation of characters and manners which have long ceased to exist, reanimate the images of the great, and the wise, and thus conduct the student through the long vista of ages to a retrospection of those interesting scenes consecrated by the presence of our venerable ancestors.This work has been a labor of love to one who has long cherished a great regard for his native place, and has been happ'y to place upon the historic page many things which, in the changes of time, might have been irrecoverably lost.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 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.