Excerpt from A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston: Containing Miscellaneous Papers<br><br>A few years ago, owing to some alteration in the office of the Fire Department, a number of presumably worthless papers were sent down to the furnaces to be destroyed. By some oversight, among them were many bundles of papers relating to the Great Fire in Boston in 1760.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.