Excerpt from Annals of the Town of Dorchester, Vol. 2: 1750 In order that it may be still more valuable to the public, and especially to the numerous descendants of (the first settlers of Dorchester, the publisher has been furnished with many of their autographs, from a page of the first: book of Town Records, being the names of the male in habitants of the town in the year 1641, which he presents to the reader as a lithographed F rontispiece. These names are appended to an instrument conveying to the town of Dorchester all rents and profits of Thompson's Island, for the support of a Free School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.