The Town That Saved a State Westerly by Mary Agnes Best, HB Facsimile, Pub 1943

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Subtitled, Written During the Rhode Island Tercentenary in 1936 for the Westerly Rhode Island Committee.  Authored by Mary Agnes Best, first published in 1943 by The Utter Company of Rhode Island.  This is a Facsimile Photo Reprint on acid free paper by Higginson Book Company.  There is no date of this facsimile reprint - I'm going to guess in the 1980s or thereabouts.  Clean green cloth boards (a few small soil spots), little to no corner or edge wear, gilt spine letters.  283 clean and solidly bound pages, no interior marks.
From an internet article on Westerly which mentions the book:
"In her history of Westerly, "The Town that Saved a State," author Mary Agnes Best posited the theory that Westerly and Rhode Island as a whole owe their existence to the commitment of the town's earliest settlers...
...As for the assertion that Westerly was the town that saved the state, it all has to do with Rhode Island's status as a "heretic colony" and attempts by Massachusetts and Connecticut to claim the land as their own.
The greater Westerly area was a prime battleground. There were numerous disputes that resulted in "endless turmoil," including the destruction by Westerly men of "a house built by Stonington men on the east side of the Pawcatuck," according to Best.
As she reported in the book, which was published in 1943, "the history of the feuds between the squabbling colonies is like reading the same page over and over again, ad nauseum." The boundary question wasn't settled until 1728, and by an agreement signed at Westerly, "citizens of this town for the first time in its existence could sleep peacefully in their beds on the east side of the Pawcatuck." "
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