Excerpt from The Ancestry of Walter M. Thurston: Giving Some Account of the Families of Carroll, De Beaufort, Merrill, Moore, Mosbaugh, Pearson, Pine, Poore, Reynolds, Van Kruyne, and Von BauerOne of the name, a son of Lief Erickson, was connected with the discovery of America A. D. 1000. Thorstein died on the voyage, and his widow married his brother, this brother made a second voyage to Rhode Island accompanied by his wife, who had a son that died there, and is supposed by some to have been the Skele ton ia Armor Of Longfellow.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.