A Genealogy Of One Branch Of The Morey Family

Author : Emily Wilder Leavitt
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ISBN 13 : 9781332131150
Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book A Genealogy of One Branch of the Morey Family written by Emily Wilder Leavitt and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Genealogy of One Branch of the Morey Family: 1631-1890 We are indebted to Prof. William Carey Morey, of Rochester University, New York, for the accompanying Preface. He has had direct recourse to all authorities and original records in various counties in New York State. The name of this family occurs at a very early period in the colonial records of New England. The diversity in the spelling oi proper names, which was, at that time, common, has a striking illustration in the varied orthography of this surname. Mory, Morey, Morie, Morry, Moorey, Moorie, Mooree, Mowry, Mowrey, Mawry, are some of the forms. These do not, of course, indicate any distinction between different families; for the name of the same person is often spelled in several ways in the same collection of records, often in a single document. In the process of time, however, it has come to be cast into two distinct and somewhat permanent forms, Morey and Mowry; the former prevailing in the families of Plymouth, Mass., and in Southern Rhode Island, and the latter in those of Boston. The question as to the mutual relationship between these has not been clearly settled. Indeed, it seems to be quite certain that their common origin must be sought, not in New England, but in the mother country. There were, evidently, a number of families, which, though they may have been related in England, became distinct sources of genealogical descent in this part of the world. 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.