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Excerpt from Contributions to the Early History of Bryan McDonald and Family: Settlers in 1689, on Red Clay Creek, Mill Creek Hundred (or Township) Newcastle County, Delaware; Together With a Few Biographical Sketches and Other Statistics of General Interest to Their Lineal Descendants
The following pages contain leading extracts from the numerous public and private records which I have examined with more or less care during the past five years. It would take many hundred pages to give at length the labors of that period, but, as a consid erable portion of the work was Without favorable results, publica tion of that part isunnecessary. What is printed here is for the purpose of enabling those interested in our genealogical investiga tions to lend their assistance and help shed light on the many dark places still to be opened up. For one man alonethe task is entirely too great It would be advisable if members of the family would select the field or fields in which they are most interested and feel willing to enter as workers; with the labor thus properly distrib uted, we should accomplish more and to our greater mutual satis faction. I should be happy to notify all of any such determination by any one, and I should contribute, personally, that which I meet with in my own studies bearing on his chosen line. Some plan of -this kind is the proper course for us to follow; and, after I have brie?y recalled the general points involved, I shall suggest such parties as seem to me best adapted for treating them. I shall be, however, only too happy to have anyone volunteer in anything for which he feels himself fitted. Nor do I make these remarks as idle suggestions; I expect them to assume definite shape._ I hope that I may nbt'feel called on to censure where I prefer to praise; but the ?agging interest of some, if persisted in, will prompt to[6.
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