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Boston, without m unicipal life of its own; and th at for the second hundred years, as well as for the first, its largest pro prietors were m ainly non-residents whose genealogies would not be required. These circumstances were not promising for the production of a work of'value or interest; but, lessening as they did the prospective labor of w riting a H istory of Chelsea, they made a refusal to undertake it more difficult. U nder these circumstances I undertook the work, and seldom have I made a more serious mistake. F o r though with small expectations, yet as something proper to be done, I began an exam ination of the archives at the State House, and had not proceeded fa r before discovering m aterial which compelled me to search page by page the two hundred volumes of State Papers, as well as the Boston Town Records, not then printed, the records of the Suffolk Courts, the R egistry of Deeds, and the P robate Office. The results amazed me, not onlv bv the mass and value of the m aterials which I found, but even more by the fact th at I had committed myself to ...
A Documentary History of Chelsea, 1624-1824
