Eventful Days at Adamsdale, Mass.

Introduction.

This sketch of Adamsdale is prepared from material supplied by the records of the Church an Sunday school; the historical address of the late Deacon Robert Cushman; the History of the Oldtown Church by Rev. John Whitehill and Mary A. Mathias; History of Bristol County by D. H. Hurd; History of Attleboro by John Daggett; Files of the the Chronicle published by E. L. Freeman & Sons, Centrall Falls; State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Edward Field; Attleboro Public Library; Rhode Island Historical Society; Superintendent of Schools office, North Attleboro; Town Clerk's office, Attleboro; Providence Public Library; Office of Superintendent of Schools, Attleboro; Register of Deeds office, Taunton; and the recollections of personal friends. To all these I am much indebted as I am to Messrs. Erskine & Morrison electrotypers; and to Messrs. Whitemore & Colburn, publishers. I would also add a word of gratitude to my life-long friend Rev. Henry Arthur Cornell and to my college friend, E. Sykes Goodwin, for valuable help rendered in compiling and arranging material.

The preparation of this little book has been a labor of love involving considerable research in public, church, and other records, and many personal inquiries.

Special effort has been put forth to make the record complete and give fair recognition to all, but there may be omissions; if so, pardon is asked.

The little volume is at last completed and is launched upon its career in the hope that work upon it has not been in vain.

G. H. L.

March 3, 1914.