Excerpt from The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List, Drawn From Records of the Colonies, Towns, Churches, Courts and Other Contemporary Sources It is encouraging to note the progress which the study of genealogy has made within the last decade, which may be said to mark an epoch in the family his tory of New England. Books like those which Mr. Pope has compiled are invaluable as aids to this study, since they furnish important clues to the genealogist, which he could not obtain except by long research in public and private archives alone familiar to experts like Mr. Pope. 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.