Excerpt from Gilbert Thompson His mother's family, from which his given name was derived, came to New England in 1632 and settled in Massachusetts. It has always been claimed that this branch of the Gilbert family included among its sons, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh and famous for his association with the Virginia colony. It was through this family that Major Thompson based his descent from John Alden and his wife Priscilla, William Bradford, William Mullins, and Myles Standish, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620 to find freedom to worship God. His colonial ancestors proved their faith by duty rendered to the State, for in addition to these Pilgrim ancestors, he placed on record in the archives of our Society his descent from Samuel Nash, also of the Plymouth Colony, and from Josiah Keith of Easton, Massachusetts, both of whom did valiant service in the early French and Indian wars. 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.