Excerpt from Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut: Together With Other Records of Church and TownPossibly the most unusual items appearing in the volume are: the meeting-house book, giving information as to the cost of building the second house of worship; the seating of the meeting-house in 1791, of special interest to those whose ancestors had a share in the development of early Waterbury, and mostimportant of all a list of the tax paying inhabitants from 1730 to 1783; few towns being able to boast so early a record of this sort covering the long period of fifty-four years. Care has been taken to reproduce these various documents in close conformity with the originals, especially as regards the unusual spelling of names, and it is believed that in this particular as well as in other respects a high degree of accuracy has been attained.The Mattatuck Historical Society is fortunate in still having among its members one whose interest in the affairs of Waterbury has never flagged and whose labors in pro moting the history of the town, both biographically and genealogically, are widely recognized. To Miss Katharine A. Prichard, who' so successfully transcribed and edited Proprietors' Records, the first publication of the Society, was therefore accorded the task of collecting data for the present volume and of preparing these records for the press. That an equal measure of success has crowned her efforts in this second voluntary service for the Society will be apparent to all those who scan the work critically.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.