Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historical Address Before the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Tracy Family, at Gouldsboro, Maine: August 19, 1899
The name That most honorable and ancient name. A name that has been handed down to us for over 557137117311. Ye 11's on the female line. And a f/mzzm/m' years on the male line. An unbroken chain: not a link 111issing from three hundred years after Christ's time to the present 1ia1 dour. Through generatiors of crowned heads, then t11 enty generations more of the noble house of Tracy. And well may we feel proud that so noble a name comes down to us 11ithout a blemish. Dishonor ever left a blot upon the fair name. And let us one and all. Here resolve that it shall be our constant aim to do our utmost to uphold the purity of that glorious name that has been handed (101111 to us b1 our fathers and mothets.
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