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 Explanatory; Introduction; Some History; Willis Family; Thomas Compson Willis; Deborah (Farrand) Willis; Edwin Ethelbert Willis; Major Henry Farrand Willis; Willis Arms; Some Further Willis History Relating to the Howells; Ancient Willis Pedigree; Willis Ancestry; Willis Genealogy; Sanford Family; Blount Genealogy; Pequot War; Plume Family; Crane Family; Colonial Notes; Treat Family; Charter Oak; The Regieides; Ward Family; First Court Held in Connecticut; Newark Notes, by Congar; Smith Family; Smith Genealogy; Marcia B. Smith (Kitchell) Willis and Family; Farrand Family; Lieut. Bethuel Farrand and Wife Rhoda; Rhoda Farrand. (Poem); Farrand Items, by Homer A. Farrand; Dr. Samuel Ashbel Farrand; Wilson Farrand; Dr. Livingston Farrand; Dr. Max Farrand; Beatrix Cadwalader (Jones) Farrand; Dudley Farrand; Bethuel Farrand, Jr.; Jacob Shaw Farrand; Olive M., Wife of Jacob Shaw Farrand; Dr. David Osborn Farrand; Mrs. David Osborn Farrand; James Benjamin Farrand; Farrand Genealogy; Grandy, Bodwell and Eberbach Families; Descendants of Samuel Farrand (6th); Robson Family; Cardoza, Rahn and Page Families; Bacon Family; Children of Samuel Ashbel Farrand (7th); Line of Mulford Kitchell Farrand (7th); Reighard Family; Houghton, Mills and Ewing Families; Hunter Family; Quimby Family 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.