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Excerpt from Genealogy and Biographical Notes of John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants: Showing His Earlier Ancestry in America From Dea; Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass, From 1635 to 1893 Ever feeling an interest to know more regarding my auces tors and their connection with the progress of the times in which they lived, I undertook during the summer of I888'to prepare a small pamphlet publication showing the genealogy, if possible, of my own immediate relatives. This attempt only brought to View the necessity of a wider scope and a more complete work. Encouraged at this stage by the interest and entreaties of relatives to extend the work, and feeling the great need of preserving in printed form the historical and genealogical records, which might otherwise be lost forever in the course of time, I finally determined to procure the gene alogy of the Lexington branch of the Parker family. 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.