Genealogical Gleanings in England. Abstracts of Wills Relating to Early American Families with Genealogical Notes and Pedigrees Constructed from the

Waters opus consists largely of copies of lengthy abstracts of wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury which bear some relation to early American families. In addition it contains genealogical notes and pedigrees maps tabular charts illustrations and an index of 30000 names as well as a fifty-one page index of places with details of where many of the early families settled. Furthermore as John T. Hassam noted in the Introduction to the work These pages contain wills relating not only to New England families but to those of Virginia Maryland South Carolina New York Pennsylvania and the West Indies. These researches in short have been conducted in no narrow spirit and they should interest everyone of English descent in every part of our country.