Excerpt from James Freeman Clarke, 1892: Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence My father, Samuel Clarke, was an only child. His fa ther, Samuel Clarke, had one sister (hepzibah Clarke, afterward Mrs. Swan), but no brother. Both were born in Boston. My great-grandfather, Barnabas Clarke, was born in Harwich, on Cape Cod, and was for some years a shipmaster. Afterward he became a merchant in Boston, marrying Hepzibah Barrett in 1748. Barnabas Clarke was a lineal descendant of Thomas Clarke, who is reported, by what Thacher calls a well received tradition in Plymouth, to have been the mate of the Mayflower, and the first who landed on Clarke's Island in Plymouth harbor. If so, he returned to England with the vessel, for he came over as a settler in the Anne, in July, 1623. He lived in Plymouth, Har wich, and Boston. He died in Plymouth, aged ninety eight, in the year 1697, and his grave and gravestone may be seen on the summit of Burying-ground Hill. 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.