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Excerpt from Ancestry and Descendants of Lieutendent Jonathan and Tamesin Barker Norris of Maine: In Which Are Given the Names, and More or Less Complete Records, From 1550 to 1905, of About Twelve Hundred Persons, Among Whom Are Sixty-Nine of Their Ancestors, Nine of Their Children, Forty-Eight of Their Grandchildren Mr. Leonard A. Morrison, author of The Norris Family of America, says the tradition in regard to the origin of Nicholas Norris is that he was of England extraction, being a descendant of one of the English settlers in Ireland, where he was born, and that he was a stowaway in an immigrant ship and arrived in America when fourteen years of age. 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.