The Descendants of Jöran Kyn of New Sweden (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Descendants of Jöran Kyn of New SwedenThis (under the form of Kijn) is the earliest Spelling of the surname met with, and dates from 1663. The older generations of the West New Jersey branches of the family employed the form of Kijhn. Other meth ods, numbering a dozen, Dutch and English, are mere attempts to render in those languages the sound of the Swedish original. Keen is the first English spelling of the name recorded, occurring as early as 1665, and is the mode adopted by the family to-day. It has the merit of representing a close approach to the ancient sound, besides being of cognate derivation, and yielding a translation of the obsolete old Swedish word. This is more nearly reproduced in sound and meaning by the German Kiihn. The Chris tian name of Joron (or Goran) was frequently written after the Dutch style of Jurian: it was sometimes strangely corrupted, but was never prop erly anglicized as George.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.