Excerpt from The Gilpin Family From Richard De Guylpyn in 1206, in a Line to Joseph Gilpin, the Emigrant to America, With a Notice of the West Family Who Likewise Emigrated From the multiplied copies thus produced, the accounts could not fail being passed down to succeeding generations, and it would be a source from which many could trace their lineage, without being subject to that error, which tradition mostly conveys, and has conveyed in this family. It would be far from desirable, that any portion of the fam ily should be excluded from the history for want of atten tion in bringing them in, they should all be hunted up. 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.