-OF THE- BERKSHIRE HISTORICAL · AND- SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. PITTSFIELD, MASS. PRESS OF THE SUN PRINTING COMPANY. PREFATORY NOTE. The Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society is glad herewith to present to its members, and to the general public also, its fifth successive number of printed papers. This, with the four preceding numbers still remaining unbound, as well as copies of the bound volumes comprising those four, are on sale with the treasurer, H. H. Ballard, at the Athenæum in Pittsfield. The Society has no paid officials, and no corporate expenses whatever; all the proceeds of the sale of the separate numbers and of the bound volumes are scrupulously applied to the needful costs of further printing and binding. Any members or other persons desirous of purchasing at one time several of either numbers or volumes will be supplied at lessened rates. All our printing is done directly from types, and not from stereotyped plates; the volumes, consequently, can not be duplicated, and they are certain to become in the future both scarce and costly. The present pamphlet holds six papers :-(1) "Jonathan Edwards," by John Bascom; (2) “Glass-making in Berkshire and Elsewhere," by W. G. Harding; (3) "Indian Grants in Stockbridge," by E. W. B. Canning*; (4) "Arnold at Quebec," by William E. Collins*; (5) “Sandisfield past and present," by A. W. Field; and (6) “New York at Bennington Battle," by Henry D. Hall. The readers of these papers will of course pass their own judgments upon the merits of each of them; and those who listened to the public reading of the first one, may certainly be pardoned if they express the view, that since Jonathan Edwards left Stockbridge in 1757, no man has appeared in New England better qualified in every way to estimate and place him, both as a philosopher and theologian, than the author of this paper. February 27th, 1894. *Deceased. A. L. P. |