Excerpt from A History of the Heard Family, of Wayland, Mass The blank leaves are inserted for future use. It being thought that they will be found useful to record from time to time any items relating to the family. It will be observed that the names of b'udburv and East Sudbury are not. Used in connection with those of the family who were born or lived in Wayland previous to its becoming a. Separate town: this is done to avoid confusion. The whole of the territory now called \vayland, w: included in the town of Sudbury till 1780, when it was called East Sudbury. The town of \vayland was incorporated in 1835. 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.