Excerpt from History of the Descendants of Mathias Slaymaker: Who Emigrated From Germany and Settled in the Eastern Part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, About 1710 Some years ago I started to compile a history of Mathias Schleiermacher and his numerous descendants for my own satisfaction, little dreaming what a task I had ahead of me, and while gradually proceeding with the work, I had a num ber of inquiries from different persons if they could secure copies when completed, and also had the suggestion, why not have it put in book form for sale, which I have decided to do. 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.