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Excerpt from Andrew Meade of Ireland and Virginia; His Ancestors, and Some of His Descendants and Their Connections: Including Sketches of the Following Families; Meade, Everard, Hardaway, Segar, Pettus, and Overton The Everard history is very interesting on account of its antiquity and remarkable connections. We have followed some of the lines, and many others might be traced. There are no other known descendants of the Everard family in this country. The other sketches are not much more than outlines, but they will doubtless help any one to make farther investiga tions. They are intended merely to give general statements of these families, and particularly their connections with the Meades. It is probably true that no other kind of composition is so liable to error as genealogical history, and some one has said that its chief use, or rather fate is to be corrected. We are aware that some of our statements, as to the Irish history of the Meades, do not accord with statements accepted by some members of the family and published in certain newspaper articles. But we have adopted them, because they seem to be sustained by reliable historical evidence. However, we shall at all times be pleased to have our attention called to all errors, which may be found in this book, historical, typographical, or otherwise, so that they may be corrected, and we may thereby arrive at the truth. 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