Excerpt from Records of a Quaker Family, the Richardsons of Cleveland: With Portraits of Isabel Casson, Jonathan Priestman, and John Richardson Procter; Also Nine Genealogical Tables, and an Index to the Marriages Nearly twenty years ago I was asked to write a short memoir of my aunts, the three sisters, elizabeth, mary, and hannah richardson. At that time I thought it improbable that the story of their lives could be so told as to interest many persons - impossible that I could so tell it. But these twenty years have brought many changes! The Present, as we see it in our children, strangely reminds us of the Past of which we have only heard from our parents; and as we ourselves grow Old, we turn with interest to picture the youth of those whom we only knew in age, a youth which, although passed amid surroundings so different, was yet filled with the same thoughts, feelings, and aspirations as that of the young to-day. I have therefore tried, however feebly, to tell the story of the lives of these three sisters, with these differences and these resemblances, to the daily lessening circle of those who knew them well, to the larger circle of those who dimly remember them, and even to a new generation to whom they are known only by family tradition. 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.

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