Ancestral Tablets from Colonial Days to the Present Era

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Excerpt from Ancestral Tablets From Colonial Days to the Present Era: A Record of the Descendants of Gov; Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Capt. Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh of New York, Fiscaal Hendrick Van Dyck of New Amsterdam, Jan Tysse Goes of Beaverwyck, and Nearly One Hundred Allied Families
These Ancestral Tablets are the result of the labor of more than ten years at spare moments amid the duties of an active ministry.
The purpose has been, without writing a biography, to identify each ancestor with the times in which he lived and those with whom he associated, that he may seem not merely a name, but a real personality and that to some extent the living may be brought into sympathy with the dead.
The plan of the work needs but little explanation. Commencing with the American progenitor of the Welles family, there is a history of each generation and of the families with which through marriage it was allied. This causes the greater portion of the record to relate to the mothers through whom the family has been perpetuated.
Enlightened public sentiment is rapidly placing woman on an equality with man, and the more the laws of heredity arc understood the greater will become the recognized importance of maternal ancestry.
For various reasons, but especially because the compiler has wrought for the instruction of his kindred, rather than the information of the general public, the record is not encumbered with constant references to the sources of his information, many of which would be found inaccessible, to most of his readers, without an expenditure of both money and time. In the place of such references, there are copious foot notes, historical, geographical and explanatory; the perusal of which, it is believed, will prove instructive and interesting. An index systematically arranged renders reference easy and facilitates research.
The labor of preparation has been pursued as recreation, and in its prosecution information has been gathered from every available source accessible through the genealogical literature of America, or so far as possible, through family records, official documents and the written or verbal testimony of the living.
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