Excerpt from Origins of Clements-Spalding and Allied Families of Maryland and Kentucky Like all persons with a spark of intelligence, I have ever felt much curiosity as to family antecedents and history; but fearing that nothing could be caught from the distant past, I was not inclined to undertake the investigation. In recent years, how ever, so much has been published of a genealogical nature, that I was at last induced to look into the matter. Once begun, the subject took possession of me and I could not let it go. 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.