Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of Bolton Connecticut for the Bolton Bicentennial Celebration: September 4, 1920 The desire to know the first things is inherent in every human being. Almost from our infant days we have been curious to know about the beginnings of Mother Earth and in maturer years interest in things primeval has not diminished. The first battle Of a great war, the first man to discover a new world, the first navigator to encircle the globe, the first aviator to cross the ocean by airship, all these have won for themselves the applause Of the entire civilized world. It is right and proper that this should be so, for those who initiate things are the ones to whom the credit is due for every advance in the life Of civilization. SO it is that our thoughts today with unusual interest are centered on the first settlement Of this ancient town of Bolton. We desire to know who trod these wonderful hills and valleys, what pursuits they followed and what their manner Of life was. 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.