Excerpt from The Houghton Genealogy: The Descendants of Ralph and John Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts; With an Introduction Giving the Houghton Families in England From the Time of William the Conqueror, 1065, to Lord Henry Bold Houghton, 1848 For many years I have entertained a purpose to put in permanent form as much of a record of the immediate ancestry and collateral branches of the Houghton family as could be obtained, but owing to the fact that my time has been twice mortgaged by the kind of business I have followed, and to a physical condition far from robust, the work has been greatly delayed. 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.