Excerpt from Clarke Papers; Mrs. Meech and Her Family: Home Letters, Familiar Incidents and Narrations Linked for Preservation "In the survey of the townships on the East and West sides of the Green Mountains, there was left between Ludlow on the East, which belongs to Windsor County, and Wallingford on the West, which belongs to Rutland County, a gore of land not granted at the time. The first settlement on this tract was begun in 1782, by Abram Jackson, Stephen, Ichabod G. and Chauncey Clark from Connecticut." This tract was named after the man who made the first settlement upon it - Abraham Jackson, an original proprietor. It was called Jackson's Gore. 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.