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Excerpt from A Brief History of the Andrew Putman (Buttman, Putnam), Christian Wyandt (Weyandt, Weygandt, Voint, Wyand) And Adam Snyder Families (Schneider) Of Washington County, Maryland
His volume owes whatever its worth may be to the desire I have had since childhood days to know who I am. At the start this work was to make that discovery and to appease my idle fancy. The way, at the beginning, was apparently broad and well illuminated, but six teen years have elapsed since the initial line was written, and the task has become one of no little propor tions. It has taken the writer to all the important libraries in Mary land, Washington, D. C., and Boston, as well as to all the County Court Houses in which records of interest may have been deposited, Hagerstown, Frederick, Upper Marlboro and Annapolis. Every graveyard in which, perchance, a stone of interesting date might rest, has been visited and records made for comparison. Scores of old bibles have been pressed into service, news paper files gleaned, and last but not least, trips were made everywhere to consult Old Folks. We regret that the most valuable records were burnt with the Court House in Frederick City, Mary land, which was the county seat of what is now Washington County from 1745 to 1797, in 1846. Here, there, and everywhere, particulars of in formation were gathered for comparison as well as for new light. A trip was made through the West in 1904, visiting Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, and in 1906 a special trip was made through Ohio, all the centers being visited. So obscure were some dates that we have resorted to logic and mathematics, yet with it all we see clearly how incomplete and inaccurate our details are, and solicit your indulgence.
From this acorn we trust an oak will grow, and then the planting has paid for itself.
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