Genealogy of the Balch Families in America (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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After the record of the latter had gone into type two of his daughters, both over eighty years of age, were found to be living within a few minutes' ride of the office of the writer's son. From them it was ascertained that their father was United States Minister at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, in the early part of this century. There are a few puzzles, similar to the above which have as yet resisted solution. They belong to the Maryland family and are appended as broken families.

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The guiding power of surrounding conditions in selecting and fixing the peculiarities of animal species, is alike potent in imparting race types to man. The great mass of recently emigrated population has sprung from a past in which slavish obedience under monarchial rule has sti ed every tendency to independent progressive thought. They have been taught no ambition beyond material prosperity, and have failed to learn the lesson of self-government on which our country must depend for its honorable perpetuity. Far different have been the in uences at work alone those lines that run to the early English pioneers. To them America's golden allurements were political and religious. Freedom. These were the ambitions of the people from which they came then the Puritans revolted against the tyranny and licentiousness of the Stuarts, and England was preparing the civil war which resulted in the dethronement and beheading of Charles I.
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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."