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Excerpt from A History and Genealogy of the Families of Bulloch, Stobo, De Veaux, Irvine, Douglass, Baillie, Lewis, Adams, Glen, Jones, Davis, Hunter: With a Genealogy of Branches of the Habersham, King, Stiles, Footman, Hewell, Turner, Stewart, Dunwody, Elliott, With Mention of the Families of Bryan, Bourke, Williams, Wylly, Woodbridge, and Many Other Families
Find alive; also records from Old Bibles, written and printed family histories, and, in a word, from the most reliable sources, and has only arrived at conclusions after a careful, considerate and logical deduction; abandoning such lines as seemed to be or were erro neous, sometimes going in one direction and then in an other, forsaking one line, returning to it, and leaving some as entirely useless and of fruitless research. He has corresponded with strangers abroad; with the Lyon Office in Scotland, consulted Burke's Peerage and other historical works and has had the satisfaction of nearly perfecting the history of the Bulloch, Stobo, De Veaux, Irvine, Douglass, Baillie and other families mentioned in these records. As to the Irvine and Douglass histories, they are perfect, supported by letters of the Laird Alex. Irvine of Drum, 1831, which, with other reliable evi deuces, enable the writer to trace his branch of the Irvine family to the Irvines of Cults, descend ant Of the ancient family of Irvine of Drum, and through them to the most ancient and renowned Douglass race of Scotland. He has letters from a brother of Dr. Irvine, from John Douglass Laird of Tilwhilly and Inchmarlo and a variety of evidence to prove what has been herein stated, and to one gen tleman, a kinsman and friend, Mr. Dingwall Fordyce of Fergus, Ontario, Canada, the author is especially indebted for a written family history, letters, inscrip tions from tombs, etc. Also to his friend, Langdon Cheves of Charleston, S. C., for invaluable Bulloch and De Veaux records; to Dr, J. P. Simpson of Laurens C. H., South Carolina; to Thos. Allan Glen and Mrs. Frances Glen Warrington, and Miss Wurcherer of Philadelphia.
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