Brown, Abram English. Beside Old Hearth-Stones (Footprints of the Patriots). Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904. [11747]
Brick red cloth with black titles & decoration, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, xvii, [1], 367 clean pp., many text illustrations from photographs. Good. Hardcover.
"In this volume, as in the first of the series, I have endeavored to bring to light some of the obscure movements of the early patriots. The search for these has called me to the outer circle of the battlefield of the opening of the Revolution, where footprints of the minute-men have escaped the eye of the tourist." - Preface. This is the second book of the series, the first being Beneath Old Rooftrees.
A valuable study of the areas from Lexington and Concord to Bunker Hill, with accounts of minute-men and their families. The study follows them to such places as Saratoga. The last chapter is biographies of five Patriot Preachers. The Patriots come from such Massachusetts towns as Groton, Shirley, Pepperell, Danvers, and Chelmsford; and from New Hamphire, Hollis.
Abram English Brown (1849-1919), for some time a school teacher at Bedford, MA; clerk of the Trinitarian Congregational Society in that place; served as Town Clerk, Collector of Taxes, Representative in the Massachusetts Assembly, Clerk of the Bedford Free Library and the Bedford Historical Society, for sixteen years a member of the Bedford School Committee.
