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Excerpt from Life of Asa G. Sheldon: Wilmington Farmer My father, Jeremiah Sheldon, was son of Skelton Sheldon, and he a son. Of Godfrey Sheldon, the first on record in this country. He was a man of uniform cheerfulness, and sweet, even. Temper. I do not remember his ever speaking a cross word to me. In writ ing, he possessed an uncommon tact, and in the capacity of clerk attended Judge Houghton several years in Con gress, then sitting in Philadelphia. 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.