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people and by the descendants of our old pioneers, who 

 may fondly return to claim a part of their ancestral home- 

 steads. 



Even under our very eyes these things are now being 

 done, and no one could bid them stop ; but these lines 

 have been written and the pages of this book have been 

 filled with a record of events which have transpired here 

 for the purpose of furnishing all who come with some 

 faint conception of the honorable career of this beautiful 

 town. 



