Excerpt from Descendants of Benjamin Pitman: Fifth Generation From Henry Pitman of Nassau, With His Ancestry to John Pitman, First of the Family in the Colony of Rhode Island, as Compiled by Charles Myrick Thurston, in 1868, Continued to January 1, 1915, by Theophilus T. Pitman Owing to the destruction of the early records of the town of Newport, it has been impossible to obtain a full account of the descendants of john pitman. The undersigned has collected, from public and private rec ords, the contents of this pamphlet, which it is believed will be interesting to the descendants now living, and enable them to trace their families back to the first settler of the name in Rhode Island. 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.