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Title: The American Ropers
Review: The title of this book is a con (confidence trick). The full title is "The Ropers: a biographical Record from circa 1300 to 1982", but of more than 800 pages a scant 13 deal with the period before 1637 when John Roper of Buckenham, Norfolk sailed to Massachusetts and became the first of the American Ropers. Thus the English Ropers are disposed of hastily with absolutely no biographical information, and there is no attempt to show the connection of John Roper the American settler with the English family. The remainder of the book deals exhaustively with the American Ropers and will be of interest to those who don't care how they arrived in the colonies.
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