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Excerpt from The Johnstons of Salisbury: With a Brief Supplement, Concerning the Hancock, Strother and Preston Families The chief purpose of this little volume is to bring into ties of closer amity the scattered descendants of Captain Archibald Johnston of Salisbury, Conn., and especially the younger members of his family. The record is often imperfect, and in some cases the writer has been unable to follow out the lines; but it is hoped that, this book serving as a basis, some kinsman of a more enterprising antiquarian spirit may pursue them to fuller and better results. But, such as it is, it is a free will offering, in that inherited feeling of clanship which is condensed into the pithy saying, "Blood is thicker than water." The larger space given to some branches and to certain individuals of those branches is due not to the partiality of the author, but to the simple fact that he knew more about them. It was harder in many cases to condense the information at command than it was in others to exhume from a neglected past a few fossil facts of kinsmen that he feels sure he would have been glad to know and to acknowledge. Then some lives are more memorable, as filled with important events and incidents, though possibly not happier or more useful to humanity, than others that have glided tranquilly away leaving little trace behind. 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.