Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont containing vivid and interesting accounts of a great variety of the adventures of our forefathers, and of other incidents of olden time. Original and selected.

Title: Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont containing vivid and interesting accounts of a great variety of the adventures of our forefathers, and of other incidents of olden time. Original and selected.
Author: editor Francis Chase, M.A.
Publisher: Tracy, Kenney and Co., Claremont, NH
Published: 1856
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 215
Catalogs: New England, New Hampshire, Vermont
Description: Illustrated with three engravings. Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. Interior is dampstained, with stain running across bottom edge of all pages. Boards have some spotting, spine is faded, and corners are bumped. Frontispiece of the Old Man of the Mountain is cut irregularly. Ownership information in ink on pink flyleaf. Foxing throughout. The contents include accounts of skirmishes between colonists and local tribes, the captivities of Sarah Gerish, Isabella M'Coy, and Jemima Howe, local supernatural apparitions, witch tales, Indian customs and battle techniques, Revolutionary battles, poetry, and more. Hardcover, acceptable condition, dampstained. 215 pages, 12mo.