Its Origin, Progress and Decline In America.
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BY HENRY REED STILES, M.D.,
AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF BROOKLYN, HISTORY OF WINDSOR, CT., ETC.
"I find by all historians, whether ancient or modern, whom I consulted in searching for this work, the fact well recorded, and established beyond all controversy, that the Yankee nation are a set of talking, guessing, swapping and bundling sons of women."
Grant Thorburn's Notes on Virginia.
ALBANY: KNICKERBOCKER PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY HENRY R. STILES, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND, DEACON JABEZ H. HAYDEN, OF WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT,
Whose jealous love of his native state, led him, in defense of her good fame, to make some strictures upon a statement relative to bundling, in my History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., which strictures (made and taken in the kindest spirit of personal friendship) set me upon the further investigation of this interesting subject.
This Essay,
The result of that investigation, and the justification (as I claim) of my original statement,
is
MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED
BY THE
AUTHOR