Excerpt from A Genealogy of the Lake Family of Great Egg Harbor, in Old Gloucester County, in New Jersey, Descended From John Lake of Gravesend, Long Island: With Notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island Branches of the Family With gratitude to all who have lightened the labor in any degree or way, and with the hope that others may be led to the same sincere respect for their ancestors that has come to them through their study of the family history, the compilers commit the book to your charitable hands. 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.