Excerpt from Memorial of the Thayer Name, From the Massachusetts Colony of Weymouth and Braintree, Embracing Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of Richard Thomas Thayer, and Their Descendants From 1636 to 1874 The more one studies history, and races, and families, the more he must be convinced of. The marked and permanent influences of blood, despite all the crossings by inter marriages. Every genealogist has marked and marveled at the continuance from generation to generation of some particular type of character that was visible in the earliest known ancestor._ This fact has been strikingly illustrated in the two Thayer families and their descendants to this day; it is visible to any man of talent. To read aright the lesson of human history, to reach wise and safe generalizations, one must not forget the law of descent and force there is in blood or race. 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.