Excerpt from The Fiske Family: A History of the Family (Ancestral and Descendant) Of William Fiske, Sen;, Of Amherst, N. H., With Brief Notices of Other Branches Springing From the Same Ancestry The statistical and historical portions, though not in all respects what they should be, are, it is believed, as full, complete and correct as the materials furnished or to be acquired, under the circumstances, admitted of. The disparity between the space occupied by most of the branches, and that devoted to the descendants of Hon. William Fiske, is doubtless a proper subject for criticism, but it is due to say, that the work, as originally designed, never contemplated the pres ent enlargement, and that portion, having been previously compiled and printed, for the use of a particular branch only, had to be bound up in this edition unchanged, or be rejected altogether. The compiler would particularly commend to attention the closing chapter of the volume, as being one of the most valuable features in the work, containing, as it does, a mass of information about the early history and the various descendant branches of the Wenham Flsm, hitherto unknown, or never before made public, mostly derived from late and thorough examinations of land and probate records in Essex and Middlesex counties, Mass, and elsewhere. The preparation of this matter, especially the genealogical portions of it, was a task of great difficulty, and involved necessarily a large amount of study and laborious research, extending in part over the space of three years. Happily, it will not need to be repeated. 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.