Excerpt from Edsons in England and America and Genealogy of the Edsons The conclusions advanced in the initial paragraph and the two footnotes on the third page of the pamphlet regard ing the name Edson being a contraction from a word of three or more syllables, and the improbability of finding a native of England bearing it as a surname, were generally accepted, until recently, as determining the use lessness of all further attempts to ascertain anything to the contrary. The allegation that it is certainly not found in any book of heraldry was evidently left unchallenged at that time for want of enlightenment, although there was then among the priceless heraldic manuscripts of Queen's College, Oxford, one in which the name of Thomas Edson of Adderbury was so written. As printed in the Lowell pamphlet, the paragraph reads. 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.

Samuel Edson (1613-1692) married Susanna Orcutt in 1638, and emigrated from England to Salem, Massachusetts that same year, later moving to Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Descendants lived throughout the United States, some immigrated to Québec, Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.