Excerpt from From One Generation to Another: Our Family, Our Father, Home and Customs, Schools, Churches, Amusements, Roads and Highways The genealogical records of the Langdons in America disclose as the progenitor of our line Philip Langdon, a mariner who, in company with two brothers, came to this country from Yorkshire, England, in the year sixteen hundred and forty. Our ancestor remained in Boston while one brother made his home in New Hampshire, and the other in Virginia. The New Hampshire Langdon had several descendants of note. John Langdon, a sen ator for many terms, distinguished as having been the presiding officer of the first senate of the United States, was of the New Hampshire family, as was also Samuel Langdon, president at one time of the Harvard College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.