vi INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



I have included in these pages a few short articles that, 

 strictly speaking, do not come under the subjects given in 

 the main title of the book. It has seemed to me proper, 

 however, to bring them under cover, and in this way to save 

 them, as they relate to matters closely connected with the 

 early history of the town. 



. March i6, 1912. 



