Excerpt from Sketches of Mr. And Mrs. Stephen Ridgley Dissatisfied with the restraints which obstruct the career of a poor man in England, he resolved to seek the freer conditions of American life. Accordingly, in 1816, he for sook his native land and came to Boston. During the twenty one years of his life in Boston and its vicinity, he followed the vocations of baker, gardener, and farmer. He spent thirteen years on a farm in Medford. 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.