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Excerpt from The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R. I, Vol. 1 Genealogy is family history to some a chaos of iso lated facts, very dry to others, facts revealing principles, laws, methods of the divine government. Genealogy has its lessons for such as will study them; uses for such as can appreciate and interpret them. The family precedes the state. Love of kindred underlies true patriotism. 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.