Excerpt from Howard Genealogy: A Genealogical Record; Embracing All the Known Descendants in This Country, of Thomas and Susanna Howard, Who Have Borne the Family Name or Have Married Into the Family "And be said, Behold your grave-posts Have no mark, no sign, nor symbol. Go, paint them all with figures, Each one with his household symbol, With its own ancestral totem, So that those who follow after May distinguish them and know them." It seems proper to remark in the first place, negatively, that in commencing the compilation of the following Genealogical Record the writer had no expectation of being able to trace the family back in the mother country to some titled or wealthy ancestor, consequently he has made no effort to retrace the family beyond the first settler in this country. Nor has he ever hoped, by such retrogressive inquiry, to reach in a direct line of descent any one of those vast estates which many think are stored away in foreign treasuries awaiting legitimate claimants. He has little faith that such treasures anywhere exist. Neither, as it has been intimated to him, did he commence the work nor has he prosecuted it to gratify any personal or family pride in recording the names and history of kindred who at any time have made themselves conspicuous in some department of public life. It was assumed at the outset that few, if any, such would appear. Nor, again, was he influenced by any considerations of pecuniary profit that might accrue. If that had been his motive, he would have been greatly disappointed, for, if the expenses incurred were summed up, and a reasonable per diem compensation allowed for the time spent in gathering materials for the work and putting them in order, the cost per volume would exceed many fold the price the writer has purposed to put upon the work. 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.