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Excerpt from History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1736-1900: With Genealogies
Under the stimulus of an ever-growing desire to learn of the days of old, to prove or disprove the many traditions, and having these desires fostered by the willing relation of many facts and incidents drawn from the retentive memories of family friends, the wish grew that others, too, might be better informed. Such was the inception of this volume. As the work progressed, the fact of how much was irrevocably gone by the passing of the for mer generation, was borne home with overwhelming force and augmented the resolve already made, that all which was at pres ent garnered in Memory's storehouse should be culled, that the harvest might be golden.
During the winter of these same papers of Lieut. Gov. Cushman were procured from the late Mr. P. L. Cushman, who had accidently found, and, recognizing the hand-writing of his cousin, Lieut. Gov. Cushman, taken them to his own home for safety. A discriminating research was made, and all in any way relative to the work proposed, laid one side the rest were returned to the Society in Boston.
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