Ebook A Family Record of the Descendants of John Spofford, Who Emigrated From England, and Settled at Rowley, Essex County, Mass., In 1638

At the page referred to, we find four lines of ancient characters and abbreviated Latin, apparently a record of extensive domains, of greater interest to the Percys, who still hold them, than to us although it is quite certain that our family, before the conquest, were owners, and either gave their name to, or received it from this place.