Excerpt from A History of the Willis Family of New England and New Jersey and Their Ancestors: Comprising the Families of Farrand, Ball, Kitchell, Cook, Ward, Fairchild, Plume, Bruen, Smith, Treat, Pierson, Crane, Cooper, Sanford, Ford, Sheafe and Others One day the writer was most agreeably surprised to receive through the mail, a book written by his sister, Miss Frances C. Willis, containing a genealogy of the Willis Family of New Jersey and their ancestors by marriage. This book had been prepared after many years of labor and research, 011 the part of Miss Willis in looking up old records of births, marriages and deaths, going back in instances for more than three hundred years, and was complete so far as she could trace the genealogy of the family and connections, in this country. 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.