Excerpt from A Record of the Descendants of Captain John Ayres, of Brookfield, Mass The following explanations may render the plan of the book more intelligible. Each family is numbered in consecutive order, and this number will be found on some previous page, where the birth of' the child was recorded. Thus on page 31 John Ayres is numbered 51, and by searching the margins back, on page 24 the number is placed against his name in the family of his father Onesiphorus. In the same way Onesiphorus 34 is found on page 17 in the record of Ms father J abez 14. 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.