Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Travels of Isaac Fenton King: With Some Incidents Connected With His Childhood

In writing this little book for my family, I have found many difficulties. Among them, I mention a few. The subject matter and style suited to children will seem trivial to persons of mature years, and that which is meant for grown up people, may seem grave to the little folk.

To condense into a small book the material gathered in a long life is no little task. This difficulty was most apparent in attempting to put in a small space what I have seen in long journeys.

It has been absolutely necessary to select, and in so doing I may have incorporated the less valuable and may have made no mention of what others would deem more important things.

Most autobiographers unconsciously seem to be egotists. Of necessity I speak here often of myself, therefore I hope I do not make a hero of myself.

My aim has been to hand down to my family a few facts to entertain them, and to supply to future biographers and genealogists some data that otherwise might be lost.

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