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After the publication, during the past winter, of the " Pitkin Family
of America,"''' by Mr. A. P. Pitkin, covering the whole field of the gene-
alogy of the family, from its first progenitor in this country, William
Pitkin, down to the present time, it would be superfluous to go over the
same ground again—especially as the Pitkin-Wolcott aUiance was in the
very first generation of the American Pitkins. This alliance, however,
proved so important to both families that some farther recognition of it
seemed to be called for. We are happy, therefore, to preserve here
an old record of several early generations of the Pitkins, drawn up
by some unknown hand in the family, and kindly copied for us by
Mr. James Sherwood Pitkin of New Haven. All important discrepancies
between this record and the statements in the "Pitkin Family" are
marked by the initials A. P. P.
" Having since my former memoranda concerning the Pitkin family
obtained much information, particularly in relation to WiUiam Pitkin who
emigrated to Connecticut in 1659, and his son and grandson of the same
name, I, in November 1843, committed the same to writing, and here, for
more safe preservation, now transcribe the same.
" JFz7//«;«w Pitkin, the first, was born in the city of London" in
1635, without the walls, and, as is supposed, at a place called Mary-le-bone,
where he lived at the time of his emigration, and where he received an
>« Hartford, 1887.
" Other Pitkin papers give Lincolnshire as the county from whicli William Pitkin emigrated—Pri-
vate letter of Prof. S. E. Baldwin, Nov. 25, 1886. Miss Mary K. Talcott of Hartford, on the other hand,
writes (February 8, 1887) as follows ;
" Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire appears to have been the English
home of the Pitkins. Cussan's History of that county states, in vol. iii. p. 76, that the name of Pitkin
occurs frequently in the records of Great Berkhamstead, and I found the name of William Pitkin as
living there circa 1620-40. The Lincolnshire origin does not appear to be anything more than tradition
unsupported by facts."