128 HISTORY OF DERRYFIELD. 



period antedating the first actual settlements in Derryfield, and 

 in the events occurring from 1750 to the date of the city charter 

 much matter of inter'est remains to be made of record. 



We may attempt the task of gleaning the field already reaped, 

 gathering perchance here and there a straw which has been jolt- 

 ed from the historical wain, and prolonging a little further the 

 search amid fast disappearing annals. For the period following 

 1841 the writer will have the advantage of personal recollection, 

 and he has already reached that over-ripe stage of life in which 

 the pictures of past events are more vivid than those of recent 

 occurrence. We should be permitted to add that the work is a 

 labor of love, undertaken and published wholly at the expense 

 of the writer, with little prospect of reward, but he is abundantly 

 satisfied if he has succeeded in casting an added light upon the 

 fading pages of the past. 



