Excerpt from John Butts: His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants The past few years have witnessed an increased interest in gene alogical work. Writing a family history, once generally regard ed as a pursuit of royal pedigree, has come to be a task, by no means uninteresting in many an unpretentious family. As a plain and comprehensive record of one's ancestors, not as incidental steps back to some more or less illustrious person, does a family history most truly serve its purpose. This book is nota complete history of ...
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Excerpt from John Butts: His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants The past few years have witnessed an increased interest in gene alogical work. Writing a family history, once generally regard ed as a pursuit of royal pedigree, has come to be a task, by no means uninteresting in many an unpretentious family. As a plain and comprehensive record of one's ancestors, not as incidental steps back to some more or less illustrious person, does a family history most truly serve its purpose. This book is nota complete history of the Butts family. The record begins with Thomas Butts, who came to this country from Norfolk County, England, in 1660. To trace the genealogy of each of his four children would be a task most difficult to accomplish, and one which the duties of my profession would forbid me to attempt. The name of Daniel Butts, page 31 (the fifth generation from Thomas) marks the point at which this book begins to be a complete record. It was my original intention, when I had traced the genealogy of all the descendants of Daniel Butts, to publish the work and to call it Daniel Butts, His Ancestors and His Descendants. While collecting the data, I obtained incidentally considerable information about other branches of the family, and I decided to include it in my work in the hope that some other member of the-family might take it in hand and try to complete the various lines. In order to make the title consistent, I changed the name of the work to John Butts, His Ancestors and Some of His Descendants. John Butts was the first member of the family to settle in Dutchess County, New York. The additional matterto which I refer will be found in the last part of the book begin; ning on page 86. This work contains no record of the immediate ancestry of Thomas Butts, the first member of the family to settle in America. The Visitation of Norfolk (norwich, 1878) contains a genealogy of the Butts family on page 343. The same pedigree may be found in Kent Genealogies (london, page 257. Both of these works give generations of the Butts family extending through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I have made no special effort to trace the ancestry of Thomas Butts, but have no doubt that he could be connected with the old English record to which I have referred. The family coat of arms which I have in setted is from Kent Genealogies, page 257. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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