TRACING GENEALOGIES, INTERMARRIAGES AND FAMILY RELATIVES.
ALSO, EMBRACING NUMEROUS FACTS AND INCIDENTS RELATING
TO THE FIRST SETTLERS AND

EARLY HISTORY OF THE PLACE.

BY HON. MARK DOOLITTLE.

"I will remember the work of the Lord: Surely I will remember thy
wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy
doings," "Thy way O God, is in the Sanctuary: Who is so great a
God as our God."

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PREFACE.

IN giving the following pages to the public through the press, a few introductory remarks seem to me appropriate. In the undertaking and progress of collecting materials comprised in this little volume, the thought of giving them to the public in this way never entered my mind. The labor was begun, in a limited way, many years since, and attended to only when other things did not press, as a paramount claim upon my time, and pursued to gratify my own curiosity, having a desire to learn who, in by-gone days, occupied the places we now occupy; whence they were, and what they were in condition, character and pursuits, in life's short pilgrimage. The more I gathered relating to them the greater was my desire to gather more, and extend it to their whole history, political, civil, religious, and social; and this, from all the sources within my reach, records, writings and orally, carefully preserving all that seemed to aid me in attaining my object. Some six years since, in looking over my loose