Excerpt from Genealogy of the Descendants of James Breakenridge, Who Emigrated From Ireland, July, 1727 It has some support in the fact that Francis of Palmer, the first one born in this country, to pre serve his descent, spelled his name Brackenrz'dg'e. Francis, of Ware, followed his example, as seen onthe headstones of himself and wife in the old grave yard near the church at Ware Center. But the first emigrant wrote his name and his youngest son George and /zz's descendants to the fifth generation kept up that spelling. His second son William. Of Ware, dropped the e and spelled Brat) enrfdge and it was so kept up bv most of /zz's descend ants, except the families of his son George. Now al most all our cousins of the name throughout the coun try adopt the Southern method It has produced greater uniformity, but I am by no means certain that it conveys the right idea. 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.