Excerpt from John Lee of Farmington, Hartford Co;, Conn;, And His Descendants, 1634 1897: Containing Over 4, 000 Names; With Much Miscellaneous History of the Family, Brief Notes of Other Lee Families of New England, Biographical Notices, Valuable Data Collected by William Wallace Lee, Military Records It is natural for any person of common intelligence to desire to know something of his origin, and, if never given to research for that information himself, he would'be expected to listen with some degree of interest to anyone who had made that research for him. An honorable ancestry is a source of honorable pride. The individual who embarks In genealogical literature with the expectation of amassing a fortune or earning his bread, even, is very sure to meet With disappointment, to remain poor, and to suffer from hunger if he has no other resource upon which to rely. 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.