Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dennison Family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine, Descended From George Dennison, L699-1747 of Annisquam, Mass: Abner Dennison and Descendants, And, David Dennison and Descendants, With an Account of the Early Dennisons and Other Data
There are other Dennisons who have lost the traces of their family connections, as he did, and have the desire but not the time to ascertain them. Often in the same town are neighbors having different surnames, who never suspect that their great-grand parents in childhood played around the same fireside.
While living in Bath, Maine, near Freeport, I felt the need of a genealogy and copied records for my own use, and later the thought came to me of collecting this material in genealogical form, and offering it to my kinsfolk, not only as a memorial of the past, but as a record for present and future generations. As time goes on data will be harder to collect and this may be the foundation upon which someone who has better opportunities can build a more complete work. We can learn from nature to value a record of the past. To the geologist the strata of rock unfold the ages, and in footprints and fossils a record of animal life is preserved. Can man do less, can we let the unrecorded footsteps of those who move about us go to oblivion in a few years hence? To know something of our ancestors is not only a matter of personal interest, but also one of historical importance. Where they lived, what they thought and did, sometimes under adverse conditions, ought to teach us a lesson in contentment, and give us a more exact knowledge of ourselves.
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