Excerpt from History of the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire: For a Period of One Hundred and Thirty Years, From 1764 to 1894 George L. Balcom, be authorized to act as a committee to procure the writing and publication of a history of Claremont. Agreeably to the authority thus conferred, the committee, on behalf of the town, contracted with Otis F. R. Waite to write and prepare such history, from the grant of the township and its settlement through all its subsequent growth and progress down to the close of 1894. 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.