Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Brief History and a Complete Record of the American Descendants of John and Mary Smith, Who Lived and Died in County Derry, Ireland
T is natural for many of us to desire to know what has been. History is pleasant and profitable as well as prophecy and foreknowledge, granted that the future invites and encourages, the past warns and instructs.
The present sketch must be necessarily somewhat imperfect. Lack of some general information and precise dates renders it more brief than desir able, and to some extent unsatisfactory. Among the names common to the sons of men, we find that the name Smith has come in for fully a generous share of abuse. Really it has received scripture measure heaped up, pressed down and running over.
The Smiths and their descendants, however the old name may be bandied about. Do not hang their honor and their glory upon the name, merely as a name, but in the outcome have put forth the goodly endeavor, that by no act of theirs they might make it a jest and a by-word.
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