Excerpt from We and Our Kinsfolk: Ephraim and Rebekah Waterman Briggs, Their Descendants and Ancestors, With a Few Collateral BranchesIf, as an old Chief Justice said, God sifted a whole nation that He might send choice wheat over into this wilderness, then the more that our boys and girls know of their ancestors, the more sacred will seem their duty of allowing no deterioration to occur in their day.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.