Download or read book A Historical Sketch of the First Ancestors of the Stackhouse Family in America (Classic Reprint) written by William R. Stackhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the First Ancestors of the Stackhouse Family in America So far as I am aware the first member of the Stackhouse family who attempted to collect genealogical data of our his tory was Amos Stackhouse, 1757-1825, a great grand son of Thomas, . The immigrant. He' was a man of Isome literary attainments and was for some years engaged in teachin'g'school at Mount Holly, New Jersey. His life was passed'mainly in that place and.in Philadelphia. The results of his labours were somewhat menger and mostly confinmed to tradition; however anucleus was established. His son Powell Stack house, Sr., 1785-1863, took up the work where his father laid it down and pushed his inquiries still further. His inter est in the work led him to look up every one bearing the name if accessible. He resided in, phi1daelphia and in those days there were many of the name there. The story IS told that on one occasion he learned that a family of the name of Stackhouse resided in the lower part of that city and one morning he sallied forth to interview them to find out where the relationship came in. To his intense disgust the family turned out to be negroes. It is needless to say he abandoned summarily - abolitionist as he was - all desire of establishing relationship. In explanation of this it may be said that in Colonial days when slavery existed in the North, many of the slaves assumed the names of their masters and this was the case no doubt in the instance recited. 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.