Excerpt from Haverhill: An Historical Address
AM going to tell you as well as I can in the time that your patience allows me, in simple lines, the story of this old city that was named Haverhill at the very beginning of its settlement, two-hundred-and-seventy-five years ago, and that occupies the site of an Indian vil lage, called Pentucket, long abandoned when the white settlers first came here. So rich is this history, so full of traditions, so abounding in delightful and eventful by-ways is this story, that were I to relate it all, the night would fall and the morrow come and the morrow's morrow before I reached the end. Much, therefore, that I would tell you I must leave untold; or, better, I must invite you to read it yourselves in the abundant literature that contains it. However imperfectly I may perform my task, I hope to help you to appreciate thoughtfully the high purpose, the courage, the indomitable will, that planted a home here in the wilderness, that bore hardship and fatigue, that braved dangers, that withstood tyranny, that fought for freedom, that gave sacrifices of its dearest for national honor and unity, that painfuuy planted the seed of industries and prosperity, and left the price less inheritance of it all for our enjoyment.
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