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  WOODSTOCK

  AN HISTORICAL SKETCH

  BY

  CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, PH.D.

  READ AT ROSELAND PARK, WOODSTOCK, CONNECTICUT, AT THE BI-CENTENNIAL
  CELEBRATION OF THE TOWN, ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886

  NEW YORK & LONDON
  G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  The Knickerbocker Press
  1886

  COPYRIGHT BY
  CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN
  1886

  Press of
  G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  New York


As a full history of Woodstock has been in preparation for several
years and will, it is hoped, be published in the course of another
year, this brief sketch is issued as it was read at the Bi-Centennial
Anniversary of the town.




CONTENTS.


                                                    PAGE

     I. INTRODUCTION                                   7

    II. THE SETTLEMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY
          AND OF ROXBURY                              