An American Ancestry (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An American AncestryIn the first place I never Should have gathered together the memoranda' from which I have written, except that, in 1893, circumstances altered my life so that its ordinary duties were in abeyance and I had many lonely hours to be passed some/tow. It was then that I studied genealogies, corresponded, and accumulated two large blank books of notes, from which the first part of this volume was drawn. I had no object except to make a genealogical tree for my boy which should interest him in the past of his family and of his country. Of course many others be? Came interested in my object, and much material foreign to my own purpose was sent me. Naturally all who had aided in collecting were interested in the result, and the idea of printing my notes be c'ame familiar to us all. As my first plan narrowed the scope of the work to my own immediate circle, I added the sec ond part which includes many distantly related branches of the same original stock. The last half dozen pages should really be called an appendix, for they contain only notes gathered too late to be placed properly. Those regarding the Hathaways are invaluable and will Show my own paucity of information when I wrote the Sketches in the first part.What I would like to have especially clear to the general reader is that the main purpose of this book is a private - not a public - one. I wanted to pre serve certain dear names - to commem orate certai'n lives, and perpetuate in other years the memories of generations passed away. While I have wholly ignored all traditions unless proven true, I have carefully preserved all I could learn of the real anecdotes and stories in the family. There is interwoven through these pages all I have been told as a child, had written to me as a historian, and studied for myself. The result is crude, but I have made a great effort that it should not be faulty. Such faults as there are are entirely my own for no one else has even read my manu script.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.