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Excerpt from A Walloon Family in America, Vol. 1: Lockwood De Forest and His Forbears 1500-1848 When I first thought of writing about the de Forests, I had in mind merely to tell the story of the life of Lockwood de Forest, my husband's grandfather, in a pamphlet to be compiled from the family papers which I had at hand. This idea has expanded by degrees. First, it seemed wise to say something about Lockwood's Connecticut ancestors, those sterling men and women who as pioneers were always pushing forward into the wilderness. Then it became necessary to speak of Isaack de Forest, the founder of the family in America, and of his fortunes as an early settler in New Amsterdam. Lastly, it grew quite imperative to give an account of Jesse, the father of Isaack, about whom it is now possible to tell more than was ever known before. Thus has a simple pamphlet expanded into a book - a book which has really been written backward. It is, to be sure, not the first volume about the de Forest family, for Major John W. De Forest had already written an able and interesting history of them, on which he expended years of research. 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.