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Preface from Grandad, Louis Gillespie Erskine, Sr. in 1940

It is to the painstaking efforts of my Father, the late Charles Wesley Erskine, that this history of twenty-nine generations of our Family, has been made possible. The information which he left me at the time of his death was very complete and the result of extensive correspondence and research.

I am also greatly indebted to my Cousin, Robert Scarborough Erskine, for supplementary information concerning the last two generations of our Family, and to the many other persons in the United States and Great Britain who have so kindly cooperated in making this genealogical history of the Erskine Family as complete as it is.

Origin of the name "Erskine"

In the reign of Malcolm II, a Scotsman having killed with his own hand Enric, A Danish General, at the battle of Murthill, cut off his head and with the bloody dagger in his hand showed it to the King, in the Gaelic "Eris Skyne," alluding to the head and dagger and in the same language also said "I intend to perform greater actions than what I have done," whereupon Malcolm imposed on him the sirname of Erskine (i.e., the man with dagger) and assigned for his armorial bearing a hand holding a dagger, with "Je pense plus" for a motto. (From Douglas' Peerage of Scotland)