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Excerpt from Farmington Two Hundred Years Ago: A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Colonial Dames of Connecticut at the Home of Miss. Theodate Pope, May Twenty-Ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Six Madame President and members of the Society of Colonial Dames: The first formal visit of your society to this old colonial village seems to demand not only words of hearty welcome but some introduction to the town as it was in colonial days. I will not weary you with any formal history, but, during the short time available, will try to give you a few passing glimpses of Farmington as it was on the 29th day of May, 1706. 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.