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Explanation Continued

     The Mossops, Grahams, Spences, Finlays, Buchanans, Smiths, Jellys. Parslows, Morrises, McKees, Shapres, Newells were relatively recent Immigrants from Ireland.

The Barrs, Russells, Dakens, Hartels, Scotts, Bakrs, Knapps, Johnsons, Sadlers, Secords, Rickards, Franks, Vincents, Pococks, Yorks, Grants, Eatons and Waits were probably all British and mostly English.

My childhood reached back into the last stretches of the pioneer period.  For some years I experienced the life whose best implements were only the axe, the hoe and hand plow; the scythe, the cradle' hand rake and the flail' the cross-cut saw. the frow and the single draw-shave.  The crooked fingers that these tools made for me before I escaped to another and more modern life, have been a daily reminder of those patient suffering laborers whose toils I tenderly recall across the long stretch of three score and more years since.

For their slaving drudgery in chopping down those dense forests, in hewing and splitting the timbers into log cabins and stables and fences; for their loggings and raisings and bees; for their weary work in tilling the soil and gleaning their poor living between the tree stumps, for all these I can make no recompense beyond this belated roll-call of their names.  This will not help the dead, but may it will deepen the thoughts and appreciations of those who shall later be anxious to study the conditions of their ancestral lines.

Druen J. H. Ward

Early Dorchester

 


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