SCRAPS OF LOCAL HISTORY. 



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Inhabitant more pleasure than to recall and rehearse the days of 

 his youth, and the incidents connected therewith, and his recol- 

 lections are invaluable, for although he may he astray on dates 

 and may embellish the incidents considerably, he is generally to 



JAMES J. PIERCE. 



he relied upon for personages and localities. The necessity of 

 doing this at once is very strikingly exemplified in the following 

 notes, as one of the parties giving evidence died two months after 

 being interviewed and another ten days after. 



The facts collected, if true, should fit exactly, each into its par- 



