Excerpt from Genealogical Memoranda Relating Chiefly to the Hayley, Piper, Neal and Ricker Families: Of Maine and New HampshireThe reader will please bear in mind that I have not attempted a complete history of any one of the four families considered. I have merely sought to bring together, and arrange in some intel ligible manner, such genealogical memoranda concerning each family as I could glean from any and every accessible source It will be noticed that, in many cases, there are missing links in the several records. I may be asked, Why publish, until all these gaps are filled? My answer is that, should I wait until all the missing links are supplied, the book would never appear. I have thought it better to give to my kindred the genealogical items and data now in my possession than to let all together pass into oblivion. An imperfect record may be better than no record at all, as it seems to me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.