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ANCESTRY

OF

PRISCILLA BAKER.

OF

PRISCILLA BAKER,

WHO LIVED 1674-1731, AND WAS WIFE OF

ISAAC APPLETON,

OF IPSWICH.

BY

WILLIAM S. APPLETON.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

1870.

218. d. 38.

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THE

HE chief reason for printing this volume is the opportunity which it gives of preparing better and fuller genealogies of the families of Symonds and Reade than can be found in any book which I have ever seen. No good account has been printed of the descendants of Samuel Symonds, a gentleman of rank and prominence in this country, who held at the time of his death the second place in the colonial government of Massachusetts; and concerning the lineage of his second wife, Martha Reade, whose sister married John Winthrop, Jr., and whose mother married Hugh Peter, still less can be anywhere read. During three visits to England I have myself made long and careful researches into the ancestry of these

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