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Gazetteer and business directory of Windham county, Vt., 1724-1884, 1884
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1gence and care in this difficult and complicated feature of book-making. Of such as feel aggrieved in consequence of errors or omissions, we beg pardon, and ask the indulgence of the reader in noting such as have been observed in the subsequent reading of the proofs, and which are found corrected in the Errata, following this Introduction.
3It was designed to give a brief account of all the church and other societies in the county, but owing, in some cases, to the negligence of those who were able to give the necessary information, and in others, to the inability of any one to do so, we have been obliged to omit special notices of a few.
5We would suggest that our patrons observe and become familiar with the explanations at the commencement of the Directory, on page 305. The names it embraces, and the information connected therewith, were obtained by actual canvass, and are as correct and reliable as the judgment of those from whom they were solicited render it practicable. Each agent is furnished with a map of the town he is expected to canvass, and he is required to pass over every road, and to call at every dwelling and place of business in the town, in order to obtain the facts from the individuals concerned wherever possible.
7The margins have been left broad to enable any one to note changes opposite the names.
9The Advertisers represent many of the leading firms and business men of this and other counties, and we most cheerfully commend them to the patronage of those under whose observation these pages may come.
11We take this occasion to express the hope that the information found in this book will not prove devoid of interest and value, though we are fully conscious that the brief history of the county the scope of the work enables us to give, is by no means an exhaustive one, and can only hope that it may prove a nucleus and incentive to future historians, who will be the better able to do full justice to the subject.
13While thanking our patrons and friends generally for the cordiality with which our efforts have been seconded, we leave the work to secure that favor which earnest endeavor ever wins from a discriminating public, hoping they will bear in mind, should errors be noted, that "he who expects a perfect work to see, expects what ne'er was, is, nor yet shall be."
15HAMILTON CHILD.
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