Excerpt from The Baxter Family: Descendants of George and Thomas Baxter, of Westchester County, New York, as Well as Some West Virginia and South Carolina Lines The descendants of John Baxter, of North Salem, had the old tradition of the three brothers, one of whom settled at Greenwich, Conn., one somewhere on the Hudson and the third at Cow Bay on Long Island. They took no note of the three younger sons of John and Mary (honeywell) Bax ter. The Baxter Memorial speaks of a Gregory Baxter who settled at Roxbury, Mass, 1630. His daughter Abigail mar ried Joseph Adams and they were the grandparents of John Adams, second President of the United States. It has long been a tradition in our family that our first ancestor on Amer ican soil, married Mary Adams, but whether of the Braintree family remains to be seen. I believe the two Thomas Baxters married wives from Hartford. As to the divorce of Bridget Baxter, I can only say we cannot judge our ancestors. They did what they thought for the best. 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.