Excerpt from History of the Swope Family and Descendants: 1678 1896In' beginning this work it was our intention to give only an account of the family of Yost Swope, but during its progress we found several Swope families descended from ancestors who settled in this country prior to the Revolutionary war. These we have traced out as fully as possibly and given in Part II.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.