The following work is printed substantially as it was left by its author, the Hon. Robert Safford Hale, LL.D., who died in December, 1881. The first sixteen pages were printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October, 1881 and were the last results of his investigations of the source of the family in England. As the manuscripts of Mr. Hale were found to contain a vast amount of information outside of a mere genealogical record, it was deemed best to give to the world the total results of his labors, and in the same form as he left them. It will be seen that he departs from the usual form of tracing one branch from the founder to the latest repre sentatives of that branch and then others in succession, and that he mentions successively all the members of one generation in all the branches before proceeding to the next. As the work is written with so much clearness and precision the reader will in no case be embarrassed in.