Excerpt from Genealogy of the Descendants of Col. John Davis of Oxford, Conn;, (Formerly a Part of Derby, Conn;): Together With a Partial Genealogy of His Ancestors in the United States, Also Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Some of His Descendants and Other Matters of Interest, Collected, Arranged and Compiled In 1880, I conceived the idea of compiling the Gene alogy of the descendants of Col. Davis, and soon found I had a good sized job on my hands, as I had to do all the work between business hours, and therefore could do the work slowly. Had it not been for the peculiar fascination of the work I would have given it up. By 1890 I had been in communication with every head of a family from Col. Davis down to that date. I then compiled the same by families, which I had printed and with new blanks, I sent a copy to each family for corrections and additions. I had this nearly completed by 1900. From 1900 to the present I have been in almost con stant communication with the different families by which means I have succeeded in getting additions down to date, except the year 1908, when I was confined to my house over six months by severe illness. 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.