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Excerpt from Matthias Farnsworth and His Descendants in America: A Monograph
Of the family such scraps of information as they may possess, the author will feel that his labors have not been in vain.
How long a time has elapsed since the Rev. James Delap Farnsworth began the compilation of family records to which we now gain the first insight in the following pages. Most of us were then unborn, and volumes of family history have been enacted in the many intervening years. He died in 1854, nearly forty years ago, and the incomplete material he had gathered passed into the hands of a worthy successor, then in the prime of life. In his hands the framework erected by his predecessor has, by unremitting attention, grown to large proportions. Now he, in turn, long past the age of three score and ten, finds his work still far from complete, or from even a degree of perfection that will warrant its publication for some time to come. This should not be, and the Genealogy need not be long delayed if the Farns worths in America who read these pages will send to the author the names and dates of births, marriages and deaths in their families, and urge others of the name to do the same.
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The descendants of Matthias Farnsworth may well rejoice that the annals of the family have at length been preserved in this little book; their debt of gratitude to the faithful compiler, whose long and patient labors have borne this first fruit, can never be repaid. Only one who has essayed to piece together the fragments of obscure family history; to extract the kernel of truth from the chaff of family tradition; to reconcile the innumerable doubts raised by faulty records with ascertained facts; to unravel the tangled skein of departed generations with its broken and missing threads - only one who has attempted any of these things can fully appreciate the labor involved in or the value of a work of this character. For it must be remembered that this monograph is but the reflex of a work of far greater magnitude and importance, the Genealogy of the family. Without the untiring investigations that have been continued through two generations, without the collection and arrangement of the slowly accumulated material for that work, this book never could have been written. In these pages the author has endeavored to present to those bearing the name what has been learned of their family history in the progress of those investigations, free from the statistics that necessarily encumber the pages of the Genealogy, and to give them such information concerning those who have borne or who now bear the name as seemed most worthy of preservation. Beyond this, it is an effort by one who has devoted a large portion of a long life to this work to arouse a more general interest among the members of the family now living in the completion of the records of the family, past and present, and to hasten the publication of a Genealogy that, always of inestimable value, must be of still greater value and importance as time rolls on and the inevitable changes in social condition lead to an enhanced social estimate of name and descent.
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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.
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