40 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



26 Perrin Street (Roxbury) Boston; m. 1863 July i,Eoxbury, 

 Danforth Comstock Hodges, son of Almon Danforth & Martha 

 (Comstock) Hodges, of Roxbury. 



ix. Adelaide Lewis, b. 1844 Feb 3, Groton, Mass. ; living 1902 

 at 51 West 38th Street, New York City ; m. 1866 Oct. 10, Bos- 

 ton, Dr. jfames Woods McLane, son of Rev. James Woods 

 & Anne Huntington (Richards) McLane. Dr. McLane died 

 in New York, on November 25, 19 12. 



X. Gm^ Richards, b. 1848 Nov. 11, Groton; d. 1858 Nov. 30, 

 Roxbury. 



Yours very truly 



A. D. Hodges, Jr. 

 Boston, January, 1902. 



GROTON BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The following letter was written to me many years ago by 

 Mr. Alpheus Richardson, who kept a bookstore and bindery 

 at the corner of Main and Elm Streets. His business was 

 carried on in an ell connected with his house. He published 

 several books, of which the most important were two editions 

 of the New Testament, one of them appearing in the year 

 1833, and the other in 1846. Below is given the title of each 

 edition: 



Methuen, Sept. 25, 1851. 



Dear Friend, — Yours of the 15th was received some days since 

 stating that you were engaged in collecting all works, etc., published 

 in Groton. When I resided in town I published two different edi- 

 tions of testaments ; one a small pocket edition, 32° size, the other a 

 24° size, which I published 10 or 12 years [ago] ; also a book called 

 the New Primer, of about 40 pages which I published seven thou- 

 sand and five hundred ; also a book called the Broken Vase, a narra- 

 tive of about 70 pages, which is all I published while I was in town, 

 except several small pamphlets, which is so long since I have forgot- 

 ten about them. I hope you will succeed in collecting all the matter 

 published in town and be able to get up quite a catalogue, which 



