Excerpt from History of the Fanning Family, Vol. 1 of 2: A Genealogical Record to 1900 of the Descendants of Edmund Fanning, the Emigrant Ancestor in America, Who Settled in Connecticut in 1653, to Which Prefixed a General Account of the Fanning Family in Europe From Norman Times, 1197, to the Cromwellian Confi Captain in Favour of lung Charles. And when Cromwell conquered Ireland he ruined innumerable multitudes of them and seized their estates - among the Rest this Edmund Fanning and his wife and son Edmund took their flight for New England, having left all, expecting to serve for their passage; Among others they landed at New Lon don. Governor Winthrop soon made himself acquainted with the woman and perceiving her extract and that she was a woman of Sence and Learning, rescued them from servitude and settled them on Fish er's Island, which was his, and to this day belongs to his posterity. 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.