The King Family of Suffield Connecticut Its English Ancestry 1389-1662: And American Descendants 1662-1908 Comprising Numerous Branches in Many States of the United States Also Appendices Containing Information Concerning Some of Its Maternal A

Excerpt from The King Family of Suffield Connecticut Its English Ancestry 1389-1662: And American Descendants 1662-1908 Comprising Numerous Branches in Many States of the United States Also Appendices Containing Information Concerning Some of Its Maternal Ancestors<br><br>About the year 1050 the custom of using family or surnames (that is a descriptive name added to the christian name) began; but it made way SO very Slowly that even at the close of the twelfth century it had not diffused itself very much beyond the ranks of the higher nobility and throughout the thirteenth century the old habit of self-designation by the christian name merely was still exemplified in a vast number of instances. (encyc. Brit.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.