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A History of the Dorchester Pope Family. 1634-1888
A History of the Dorchester Pope Family 16341888 Author:Charles Henry Pope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. CONCERNING ENGLISH POPES. We trace our ancestry back to England, although our "pilgrim-father" left us no scrap of writing to show whence he ca... more »me, because (i) the colony, of which he was an early and honored member, was clearly English; because (2) his connections with church and state, the trade he followed, the articles mentioned in the inventory of his estate, and many other circumstances incidentally prove that he was a Briton ; and because (3) his own name and those of his family are so often found in English records. As we have not yet been able to fix with certainty on the very spot which gave him birth, it is proper for us to consider the history of all the families bearing our name throughout England, before and in his day. This chapter contains an abstract of all that we have found upon the subject; and it is here presented as a nucleus for a history of the Pope Family or Families in England. No such work has heretofore been printed—or attempted, so far as can be learned. English genealogists, in general, have sought to trace the pedigree of celebrated or ambitious individuals, and have purposely omitted to follow out the untitled or inconspicuous members of a family. The so-called "Visitations " of the several counties are all thus limited, defective; for the persons who make them copy out items concerning those they suppose to belong to the " upper families," and coolly pass by other records which relate to persons of whose standing they happen to be ignorant, or whom they believe to belong tothe poor or working classes. Thus flagrant omissions characterize all such books. Our American theory of genealogy is broad, comprehensive, regarding every brother as a BROTHER, and follows St. Paul's charge, " Mind not high things, but condescend to men...« less