A History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck

A History of the Town of Concord by Lemuel Shattuck

Concord, MA town history

Edward Jarvis’s annotated copy of Shattuck’s history of Concord—here opened to show Jarvis’s tell-all description of the choice of Emerson as orator—reveals much about the local political climate in which the 1835 celebration was planned. Tension between local interests and the world beyond Concord and between the haves and have-nots of the town are apparent in the account.

All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library

Lemuel Shattuck

Edward Jarvis

Concord Free Public Library

1835