Excerpt from Old Paths and Legends of the New England Border: Connecticut, Deerfield, Berkshire IN our new historical journey, we shall attempt to follow, as far as may be in a few pages, the ever-shifting border line of colonial settlement - the westward drift of the log - hut across the wilderness of New England in the days when we were still subject to kingly rule. 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.