. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. te of Massachusetts, the name of Frost appearsno less than one hundred and sixty-nine times. If tothis be added the descendants through the female lines,a fair estimate of which would be as many more, makinga total of three hundred and thirty-eight, some idea wouldbe had of the part taken in the struggle for independenceby the Frosts. These latter, however, were not all de-scendants of Edmund Frost. To the one who undertakes this task we will leave itto determine whether this fighting
. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. te of Massachusetts, the name of Frost appearsno less than one hundred and sixty-nine times. If tothis be added the descendants through the female lines,a fair estimate of which would be as many more, makinga total of three hundred and thirty-eight, some idea wouldbe had of the part taken in the struggle for independenceby the Frosts. These latter, however, were not all de-scendants of Edmund Frost. To the one who undertakes this task we will leave itto determine whether this fighting tendency was due totheir Puritan strain, in that they had the courage of theirconvictions, or to the wild blood of their remote ancestors:Anglo-Saxons, Danes, or possibly of the more turbulentNormans, still flowing in their veins.* *Lest we credit too much to personal initiative, it is well to remember thatduring their time, military service was required of all able-bodied men; suchservice commencing at the age of sixteen, with apparently no limit to the ac-quired age when it should be considered No. 107—S. A. FROST. (1844).
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