Excerpt from The Vanderpoel Family Annals and Household Memories, Vol. 2 Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves, - not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him. Samuel rogers. E have in the previous volume traced the family his tory from the middle Of the fourteenth century to the middle Of the nineteenth. The latter was a most interesting period in our national life, one Of which much has been written, and one which will always be prominent in American history, but in the present volume our thoughts center more about the family annals than the National history, our theme is more especially the family life Of that epoch, and though the Civil War will in some measure enter into our narrative, it is not our primary interest in these pages. 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.