Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Descendants of Joran Kyn of New Sweden This work comprises (with numerous additions) a series of articles originally printed in The Pennsylvania Maga zine of History and Biography, volumes II-VII, issued by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania during the years 1878 - 1883. For the first six generations included in it, it is, genealogically, as complete as the author, with his pres ent knowledge, can make it. Members of. Later generations are mentioned in footnotes in such numbers, it is believed, as will enable others to trace their lineage from the first progenitor with little difficulty. It is published not merely as the record of a particular family but also as a striking example of the wide diffusion of the blood of an early Swedish settler on the Delaware through descendants of other surnames and other races residing both in the United States and Europe. No attempt has been made to intro duce into the text information to be gathered from the recent publication of the Swedish Colonial Society, the most scholarly and comprehensive history of the Swedish settle ments on the Delaware written by Dr. Amandus Johnson, to which, therefore, the reader is referred for further eu lightenment on that subject. 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.