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HIS ANCESTORS.
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The first insight into this large family comes in the year when Faraday was born, through William, who died when he was twenty-four years old, at Clapham Wood Hall. Faraday's grandmother then wrote a letter to Anne Fordyce, to whom her son William was engaged to be married.
CLAPHAM WOOD HALL AS IT IS. This letter shows the nature and strength of the religious feeling in the family for two generations previous to the birth of Faraday.

"Clapham Wood Hall, July 4, 1791.

'Dear Nancy,—With a troubled mind I write this to you. My dear son is dead. He died on the Sabbath in the evening at seven o'clock. Now, my dear love, I beg you would hear me what I have to say, and be sober. It hath been a great concern on William's mind about you: he was afraid you would feel

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