Excerpt from Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck: The Progenitor of the Families in America That Have Borne His Name; Including an Introduction, and an Appendix Containing Collateral Information All of the author's American ancestors, both paternal and ma ternal, from their origin in this country, through six or seven generations, were natives or early settlers of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. While collecting materials for the History of Concord and the adjoining towns - the central section of that county - which was published in 1835, he met with many facts, incidents, and traditions, relating to the personal history of these ancestors; and from those materials a brief, imperfect Sketch. 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.