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Excerpt from Descendants of John Pitman: The First of the Name in the Colony of Rhode Island A family of pitman has been seated at Dunchideockhouse, County Devon, for several generations, and is recorded in the parish registers from the year 1552. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Thomas Pitman (b.1614) immigrated from England to Marblehead, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in New England, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, California and elsewhere.