This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... 5, MY OWN LIFE. In compliance with a request of part, if not all of my family, to leave some memorials of my life, (which I should much more cheerfully undertake, had I spent it to better purposes, and more faithfully in the services of my God, and society both civil and sacred, to which I have long since considered myself inviolably to owe every part of it, ) the only query I now have is, whether this will not be deemed useless, or whether it is more innocently spent than in the omission of it. But to begin my life, the scattered scraps of w only memory at rJftsent can collect, having none of the remarks at hand, which I have heretofore incorrectly committed tq paper, which would at least furnish me with dates, and without which I am at a loss t hegin., My own life suggests progenitors, which were on my father's side, from France, --on my mother's, from Britain. My great grandfather, Francis Gano, brought my grandfather Stephen Gano, (when a child, ) from Guernsey, in Jersey; it being a time of bloody persecution. Flight, or the relinquishment of the protestant religion, of which he was a professor, were the only means of preserving his life. He chose the former. One of his neighbours had been martyred in the day, and, in the evening, he was determined on as as the victim for the next day; information of which, he received in the dead of the night. He thereupon chartered a vessel, removed his family on board, and, in the morning, was out of sight of the harbour. Of what number his family consisted, I am not able to say. On his arrival in America, he settled in New-Rfifchelle, in the state o DEGREES DEGREESrYork, and lived to the age of one hundred and three. My grandfather, Stephen GsriOj married, I believe, Ann Walton, by whom he had many
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Biographical Memoirs of the Late Rev. John Gano, of Frankfort; Formerly of the City of New York