Simon Crosby The Emigrant

Author : Simon Percy Crosby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330173312
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Two Crosby Families written by Simon Percy Crosby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Crosby Families The object of this book is to give a biographical account of the members of two Crosby families for the purpose of preserving family history, and thinking it might be of interest not only to the survivors written about, but especially to their descendants. I have done this work at the request of my brothers and sisters, and of my own volition. Much more could be said of each, and possibly couched in more rhetorical language, but my object has been simply to give a narrative of facts and events in the everyday vernacular. I have given special attention to our ancestry preceding the arrival of our common ancestor, Simon Crosby, in America in 1635, my information being obtained from the most reliable sources obtainable in this country; and I doubt if more reliable or interesting history of our ancestors can be found among the archives of historic England. It is a well-known fact that in pursuing heraldry and ancient or family history you are surrounded by myths, and that to begin at some reasonably correct starting point is more satisfactory than delving into uncertainties. Between our common ancestor, Simon, who was born in 1609, and our grandfather, Oliver Crosby, born in 1769, there are three generations of Crosbys of which much could be written. Our great-grandfather, Oliver Crosby, born in Billerica, Mass., in 1744, was a Revolutionary soldier. 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.