A Genealogy of Six Generations of Gemmills in America

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Excerpt from A Genealogy of Six Generations of Gemmills in America: With Notes on Their Scottish Ancestry There are times when we would know the sources of the streams which flow through our veins to generations yet unborn. It is to satisfy this desire that this booklet is written. The Gemmills have been a simple folk. They have engaged in tilling the soil, and in the humbler tasks of the village tradesman. A few, from the earliest days, achieved distinction as martyrs soldiers, preachers and scholars. There were Gemmills in England before the days of William The Conqueror, and some of them fought against this Norman's cruel invasion of Albion. There were Gemmills who, wearing the accouterments of the Scotch yeomanry, fought with Robert Bruce at Bannockburn. There were Gemmills who marched and prayed and fought with Cromwell at Marston Moor. There were Gemmills in the new world, who tramped with Braddock through the wilderness to Ft. Duquesne, and shared his unhappy fate. There were Gemmills with Wolf, on the Plains of Abraham and with the Minute Men at Concord and Lexington. There were Gemmills with Green at Yorktown, and Brown at Lundys Lane. There were Gemmills with Grant at Shiloh and with Meade at Gettysburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.