Excerpt from Casper Branner of Virginia and His Descendants I have been cordially helped by nearly every one to whom I have applied for information, but the gaps in the records are due to the fact that so many of the letters sent out were not' answered. Acknowledgments. For much information about the Vir ginia branch of the family 1 am especially indebted to Miss Minnie Pugh of Broadway, Virginia, and to Mrs. Anna Bran ner Stiegel of Mt. Jackson, Virginia, who have looked up many families that I could not visit. In the final preparation of the manuscript for the printer and in the reading of the proofs I have been ably helped by Miss Ella W. Beaver of Tulare, California. 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.