Excerpt from Meeting of the Descendants of the Pioneers in the Upper Connecticut Valley Above Old Haverhill in New Hampshire and Newbury in Vermont: The First Settlement in the Upper Valley Was on April NineteenSpeaking in a general way, we are here to bring the descendants o the sturdy pioneers of the upper Connecticut Valley into closer aoquaintance and into closer union, and for the purpose of saying good things of those who struggled to bring a higher order of civilization out of savage conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.