Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of John Jay Smith
You know, my good cousin, my love of family history is not unlike your own; and when you indulged me with a read ing of your manuscript, written so many years ago, you must remember how surprised I was at being made acquainted with many facts and incidents in the domestic history of our com mon ancestry such as were entirely new to me. It struck me as strictly a duty for some of us to perpetuate the record of so many honorable and virtuous progenitors. To do so properly was manifestly a laborious task. You were some seven years my senior; you knew more of the antecedents of our family; in fact no living member of it could so well as you perform this duty for those who are to come after us. To lighten this labor I offered to share it with you, - you recording, and I collating, arranging, and copying the facts and recollections I was anxious should be preserved.
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