Excerpt from The Skeltons of Paxton, Powhatan County, Virginia: And Their Connections, Including Sketches of the Families of Skelton, Gifford and Crane The family of this name for many centuries occupied a good position among the English gentry and their records are found in most of the standard English books of family history. And letters filed in our Skelton Papers show that some of them have survived to the present day. However, we find that our first traceable ancestor was the honorable judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of the county of Middlesex, New Jersey, in 1774, under the government of King George III, of England, of whom we have also earlier dates, and apparently we will have to be content with that. We have also many interesting records during several cen tuties of the family in England, showing their standing and cultivation, of which we include a summary in our history. 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.