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Excerpt from Burhans Genealogy: Descendants From the First Ancestor in America, Jacob Burhans, 1660, and His Son, Jan Burhans, 1663, to 1893 From the pioneer who has to force his way through forests and make his own roads over unknown wilds, one must not expect the grace and perfectness attained by him who erects his building where all materials lie ready to his hand. When this genealogy was begun it was truly pioneer work. During the last few years the founding of various societies depen dent on a knowledge of family history has led to wider opening up of facili ties to such an end; local histories, numerous copies of church records, etc., have smoothed the paths of research. But few such aids were obtainable when this work was mainly accomplished, and especially was this the case in regard to Holland families settled in Ulster County, N. Y., where we find the Burhans ancestors early made their home. To facilitate my work I had, in 1877, full copies made of the baptismal and marriage records of the old. Kingston Reformed Church. And being strongly impressed with the importance of preserving such valuable records by duplicating them, I soon after had copies made of the books of about fifteen old churches through Ulster and Dutchess counties, and continued adding others from time to time. 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.