Excerpt from William Webb, September 19, 1746 September 23, 1832: His War Service, From Long Island and Connecticut; Ancestry and Descendants Truth is the mother of history, but familiar things in the present of ordinary lives will be lost for the future unless some record is made. Love and reverence often pigeonholes some recollection of a respected ancestor, and the remembrance clings to the mind in a kind of outline sketch, with neither dates, localities nor the surroundings which complete the picture. In my genealogical work I have striven for facts and fought traditions, but these are foundations on which to build, and this is what I am doing here: seeking to prove the truth. Tradition is a clue to be worked away from, not to rest on; a start, not a finish. My dear father was born in East Haddam, Conn., on March 29, 1807. He was named after his mother's father, whom he always respected and reverenced. He was the third son, and though ardently attached to parents and home, yet he was the first to leave and look for a. Larger field. He came on one of his father's vessels at seventeen to New York City, and remained here until he died, December 30, 1894. He soon got a clerkship and before he was twenty was in business for himself. He brought all of his five brothers and started them in business and placed his only sister in a private boarding school here. He had two brothers in his business. They owned the Anchor Line of vessels between this port and Mobile. 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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