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Excerpt from The Descendants of Veach Williams, of Lebanon, Conn: Who Was of the Fifth Generation From Robert Williams, Who Came From England in 1637, and Settled at Roxbury, Mass;; Also the Ancestry of Lucy Walsworth, Wife of Veach Williams
One Hundred years ago, as the record tells, Veach Williams lived in Lebanon, Conn., surrounded by all of his eleven children save two who had died in infancy. To-day, of his descendants numbering a thousand in six succeeding generations, barely half a dozen remain in the old homestead-town of Lebanon. The history of this family well illustrates that of many others dating back to the early colonial settlement of New England towns, where now the very names once and long familiar, since removal of the descendants who bore them, are rapidly disappearing.
No attempt is made to trace Robert Williams, the first settler of the family in New England, to his paternal roof-tree in Old England. Such undertaking would necessarily demand cautious and protracted investigation beyond the opportunities of the present writer; but it is to be hoped some other descendant, of sufficient leisure and other abundant resources, may be induced to enter upon this task, and not only successfully establish connec tion with the English stirp, but, pursuing the inquiry into the more remote past, further unveil the family record.
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