Excerpt from Jerusalem the Golden: An Historical Novel of the Finger Lake Country of New YorkY name is John Spaulding. I was born in New lord, Connecticut, of William Spaulding and Mary Prentiss Spaulding. I came of that branch of the Spaulding family that lived originally in Devon and settled in Massachusetts in 1630. In this country my father's line joined with the Parrs and Morrises at several points, Robert Morris of Philadelphia was con nected with each side of the family and was my mother's uncle. Both my father and my mother died in my early childhood and left me to be brought up by my uncle, Colonel Obadiah Prentiss, a man of exemplary char acter but unbending will.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.