Excerpt from The Family and Vicissitudes of John Phillips, Senior of Duxbury and Marshfield: A Vexatious in the Genealogy of an Old Colony Progenitor Disentangled Mather, Morton, Josselyn, Hull, Hubbard, Prince, Alden, Savage, Farmer, Deane, Winsor, Mitchell, Davis, Marcia Thomas, Goodwin and lastly, Shurtleff, have all recorded, with more or less of circumstance, the calamities which overtook Mr. Phillips - as was then believed by the priestly scribes, as a special visitation of God - and nearly every one has made one or more radical errors as to these vicissitudes and those affected by them. 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.