Excerpt from Groton Historical Series, Vol. 1: A Collection of Papers, Relating to the History of the Town of Groton, Massachusetts But, in compliance with your request of yesterday, to make some memoranda of my experiences and observations at Groton during a short residence of about five months in the Winter of 1823 and 1824, I will try, though in nearly the eightieth year of my age, and after the expiration of sixty years, without the assistance of any diary, and with a mem ory materially impaired by age, to furnish, as briefly as I can, the few reminiscences I am able to recall. 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.