Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York and his descendants : with an introduction and an appendix, the latter containing records of other American families of the name with some additional memoranda . University Press : John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. 1481. PREFACE. THE present work was begun in 1879 at the solicita-tion of Morris K. Jesup, Esq., of New York city,and has been prosecuted during intervals of leisure up tothe date of publication, a period of nearly eight amount of time and labor involved can be justlyestimated only by those who have been engaged in simi-la
Edward Jessup of West Farms, Westchester Co., New York and his descendants : with an introduction and an appendix, the latter containing records of other American families of the name with some additional memoranda . University Press : John Wilson & Son, Cambridge. 1481. PREFACE. THE present work was begun in 1879 at the solicita-tion of Morris K. Jesup, Esq., of New York city,and has been prosecuted during intervals of leisure up tothe date of publication, a period of nearly eight amount of time and labor involved can be justlyestimated only by those who have been engaged in simi-lar undertakings. The materials have been drawn from agreat variety of sources, and their collection and arrange-ment, the harmonizing of discrepancies, and, in extremecases, the judicious guessing at probabilities, have in-volved more of perplexity than the ordinary reader wouldsuppose. Records of every description, and almost with-out number, have been examined either personally orthrough the officials having them in charge, and in onecase as distant as Cape Town in South Africa, — recordsof families, churches, parishes, towns, counties, in foreignlands as well as in the United States; land records andprobate records, cemetery inscriptions, local histories, and
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