Excerpt from History of Hudson, N. H: Formerly a Part of Dunstable, Mass;, 1673-1733, Nottingham, Mass;, 1733-1741, District of Nottingham, 1741-1746, Nottingham West, N. H., 1746-1830, Hudson, N. H., 1830-1912 It has been said that to write a good town history was the work of a lifetime. It requires, beyond question, just as other tasks exact, a great amount of patient research and careful study in order to accomplish satisfactory results. The haste with which some works of this kind are prepared prove in their failure the truth of this statement. While the writer of this History of Hudson cannot claim as much for his undertaking, yet he has been collecting data relating to the town, to some extent, for a great many years. At first he had no thought of attempting a work of this kind, but possessing a historical temperament he prepared such historical material as he thought would be useful to some one who might attempt to do it. These early gleanings and savings eventually reached a porportion which seemed to make the compilation of a history, if not easy, at least within his grasp. In December, 1884, while canvassing the county of Hillsborough, N. H., for a history to be compiled and published, D. Hamilton Hurd, Philadelphia, suggested that I should prepare a brief account of the town of Hudson for his work, to be published as the sketches of the other towns were to be given. He allowed me twenty pages of space, but before my article was finished I found I had material enough for more than double that number of pages. Mr. Hurd finally allowed me twenty-five pages, which were filled with solid historical matter. My part of the work in the book was almost entirely a labor of love, the compensation being very small. It is possible this effort was an unconscious stimulant towards causing me to attempt a more ambitious work. 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.