Excerpt from The Hamilton Manuscripts: Containing Some Account of the Settlement of the Territories of the Upper Clandeboye, Great Ardes, and Dufferin, in the County of Down MY dear Lo wry - The enclosed Manuscripts contain several historical anecdotes respecting my family from the period of their settling in this country 5 together with some memorials Of my own life, down to my return from America, when I retired from public life, which were drawn up by me during my leisure moments for the entertainment of my family and friends, with no intention of publication at the time, as you are already aware but as I find that several writers have, per haps unintentionally, mistaken some facts which are fully explained in them, and drawn therefrom unfavourable conclusions, I think it would not be doing myself justice to withhold them altogether from the public. I have, therefore, been induced to request you to accept them, and undertake the publication of them at some future time, which I leave entirely to yourself, illustrating them with any observations you may think are necessary, which, I have no doubt, from my knowledge of your character, will be done impartially and fairly as I could wish, and I know you would not. 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.