Excerpt from Chandler-Parsons If there be anything of interest or value to anyone, spread upon these leaves, I beg that I may place the credit for it where it justly belongs. Mrs. Emily Chandler Hale, my aunt and the only mother whom I ever knew, had a regard for the ties of kinship which was truly beautiful, and being an indefatigable reader, with a most retentive and logical mind, she had laid by in the form of notes, together with old letters, many of the facts that herein appear. Since I am her sole representative, I have felt free to use them, as upon my decease they must be destroyed. To the late Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons Forbes of Rowley, am I indebted for much of the data in the Jeffrey and Ebenezer Parsons family, and to the wonderful research work of the late Dr. John C.Warren for the Warren Genealogy prior to 1600, which has been copied in full from his book. While the following pages represent hours of arduous and intense study; delving into old English and Latin; calling upon the microscope often to reveal some word or sentence dimmed by the ravages of time; patiently verifying data of would-be historians with records of Town, County and Ecclesiastical officers; hounding my kinsfolk to the fourth and fifth degree for memoranda; again I say, it is not to my credit but to the training of the beloved aunt, who so often said to me "Do not undertake too much - or that which you will not have strength of mind and body, coupled with a will, to finish." Would that this were a more worthy monument to her memory! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.