Excerpt from The Ancestry of General Grant: And Their Contemporaries T HE author has had two objects in View in the preparation of this work; first, to give an account of the ancient sources of the family of General Grant; and secondly, to illustrate, in some degree, the early history of the town of Windsor, and of the families whose pioneer ah cestors assisted in founding the colony of Con necticut. Those ancestors were fellow-towns men with General Grant's, two hundred years ago, in the wilderness, surrounded by the savage foe, and they lie, now, with his in the same old graveyard. It is natural, therefore, that their de scendants should feel a personal interest in him whom the fortunes of war and his own skill in arms have justly made so distinguished. 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.