Excerpt from The Pioneers of Beverly: A Series of Sketches; With Supplementary Articles on the Municipal History For some time a goodly number of the older residents of the Township of Beverly have requested me to place upon record a short sketch of the early settlement of the Township, while some at least of the older people were alive. This work began last summer, in a series of letters to the newspapers. After I had got started I found that the work was taking a more extended scope than I had intended, and it was proposed that the letters should be gathered up and be reproduced in book form as a more convenient way of preserv ing them, and this suggestion has resulted in the publication of the present volume. 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.