Excerpt from The Family of Merriam of Massachusetts The following record was, with'the exception of a few words, completely ready for the printers before the departure of the author for Europe in May, 1886, consequently before the publication of some meriams and Their Connection with other Families, by Rufus N. Meriam in 1888. The latter work is in no sense a genealogy of the family, and I therefore have no hesitation in carry ing out my intention of printing this account of the early generations. The two pamphlets should in fact be bound together. They will be found not always to agree exactly, and while I hope that in all such cases I am right, I will not positively assert that I must be so. The wills of Robert and Mary Merriam of Concord, Mass., are remarkable for the number of relatives named in them, and from them we learn some family connections not noticed by Savage or Shattuck. They are here printed at length from the originals in the registry of probate at East Cambridge, and are followed by the will of George Merriam from the same source, and that of Joseph Mer riam from the registry of probate in Boston. 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.