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The author wishes to thus assure the readers Of this work that he has made no effort to invite fame nor has he undertaken the furtherance of the art of authorship — rather it has been his in the compilation Of data, facts and figures to give the direct and diverse ramifications of the several Hamrick generations and to Show the honest strivings of them as early settlers and hardy pioneers. NO attempt has been made to perpetuate the fame of this great family in song and story rather the author has written, in plain and unpolished words, their rugged history. After all what could be more eloquent than the simple and hardy annals of the forebears of an honest and prosperous commonwealth whose efforts at building a sturdy citizenship have prevailed.
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