The committee is pleased that so many names of persons who bear the name of Darlington, or whose kindred have borne such name, have been obtained for the book; and, while it has not been possible to find our comm-ou ancestor, we cherish the belief that we have such common ancestor in the distant past, since all researches lead back to a location in England near the spot where the three counties of Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire join. So we give all these cousins as hearty a greet ing as if they, too, had the blood of Abraham Darlington, of Darnhall and Birmingham, in their veins.