Excerpt from Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society, at Utica, With Constitution and by-Laws and Members, 1889-1892, Vol. 5 I have a strong conylction that all papers read before such a society as this ought to be of the nature of actual historical studies. 'when' I promised'to address you, I expected to be able' to offer you certain'results of certain historical studies in which I have an interest. Till withina few weeks, I maintained that expectatlon. It is a little humiliating to be obiiged to confess that I have been 1111ab1e to carry out the plans thus formed, - and that 'i now'have' for you, not the results of any original and careful historical researches, but only a general. And superficial essay on a topic of historical in terest'. 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.