Excerpt from Genealogical Descent of the Huxley Family in the United States: Compiled From General and Special Histories, Public Records, Private Writings and Documents, Monumental Inscriptions, Church Registers, and Lastly, When All Other Sources Failed, From Family Tradition Most families in the United States who trace their ancestry to New England, look back still further through New England to Old England for their origin. This is the case with the Huxley family. With these families, if the immigrant ancestor can be found at all, he is found to have come from England, when the colonies were being settled, and so his descendants are of early English ancestry. No known public records, and no private records in the Huxley family in the United States exist to show absolutely by an unbroken line, its origin or nativity, but the tradition in the family has been that the ancestor came from England. This tradition did not, however, or at least does not now furnish the answers to the more particular queries which press urgently for answers, such as: Who was he who came? When did he come? Where did he come from out of the broad expanse of all England, and where was the place of his activities there? Was he of London or Liverpool, or of what place was he? At what place did he land and where did he locate? What was his calling, business or status there, and what did he become here? and a hundred other cognate questions seek answers about each person whose name may be suggested as an immigrant ancestor of any family whatever. Only here and there can persons be found about whom these questions can be answered two hundred or three hundred years after death. With the vast majority no more extended history of them exists than that they were born and died and with a goodly per cent, not even this can be found. What they did to make up the sum of life no person has cared to preserve by monument or record against the ever destroying tooth of time and final oblivion. 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.