Excerpt from The History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: From Its Formation in 1637 and Charter in 1638, to the Present Time, Comprising the Biographies of the Distinguished Civil, Literary, Religious, and Military Men of the Colony, Province, and CommonwealthThe undersigned, a Committee to superintend the publication of this History, have devoted to that duty the time they could spare from their other avocations, and now submit the volume to the candor of their associates and to the public.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.