Excerpt from Notes Upon the Ancestry of Ebenezer Greenough, and of His Wife, Abigail Israel: And Also a List of Their Descendants

These notes begin usually with the colonist on his arrival in America or as soon thereafter as he appears on the list of taxpayers. In the case of Deputy Governor Samuel Symonds there is already in print a full description of his ancestry in England and that of his wife, and some of the material has been reproduced here. In the case of Ellis Lewis the ancestry has been fully described in Connors Pedigree of David Lewis, and to that work the reader is referred for details.

This is in no way a family history, but is strictly confined to the direct ancestor in each generation, brothers and sisters and their descendants being entirely ignored. A full list of all the descendants of Robert Greenough would alone make a considerable volume and could only be gathered in New England.

The references to volume and page of printed matter relating to any ancestor are intended not only to enable all descendants to possess themselves at will of such information, but especially to enable any particular descendant to place himself at once in the line of new and enlarged development of the ancestral history whenever he may so desire.

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