Excerpt from The Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Boston, Mass., 1638-9: Especially the Branch of Esquire Silas Bowen, Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722 This little book consoles itself for its shortcomings by the consideration that it may do for a beginning, and may seem to be better than nothing. Some who take it up will exclaim that it has no index; not observing that the place of one is supplied by the tables with their genealogical numbers. A formal index will hardly be missed, except by outsiders who peep into the book from idle curiosity, and for whom this serious work was not undertaken. The writer would gladly have seen these pages lighted up by our best known faces and autographs. So, also, he would have been pleased to give place to many more sketches, especially of the departed; but he' has done what he could. May the pen he lays down be taken up by some one of ampler resources. 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.