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Mr. Brooks assumed and asserted it to be ‘Governor Cradock's House,’ and presented the above to make his ‘conclusion’ ‘inevitable,’ but cited no proof whatever.
His ‘inference’ was accepted as actual history at a time when very few town histories had been written, and passed unchallenged for forty years. It was repeated, quoted from, enlarged, embellished with fiction, until any dissent was deemed sacrilege.
We recall that during Mr. Hooper's reading of ‘Old Houses’ a worthy man at our side made a dismal groan —‘Oh!
better have let it been as it was.’
Our illustrations show this fine old house from different points of view and at different times, and are worthy of careful observation.
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