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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Vaughan Family, and More Particularly of Benjamin Vaughan, LL D Death, Death is now my only hope, Would I had ne'er been born! But it is not so with the children of sorrow who believe in the resur rection of the dead they love to cherish the memory of departed friends, and they live in the h0pe to meet them in a happy hereafter. It is one of the primary objects of our Society, not only to collect and preserve the Pedigrees of our early settlers, especially in New England, but also to obtain as far as we can a memorial or sketch of the lives of our deceased members. Nor are we confined to the mere limits of our association. Biographies of eminent men who have adorned our country, and done much good in their day and generation, are sought for with avidity and embalmed among our choicest collections. Pursuant, therefore, to a request fiom one of our members, the following Reminiscences were read before the Society and published. 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.