...then, in a republican government, the question of whom begotten or by whom begot? is, and ought to be, of no consequence to any individual, or to his peers. My paternal grandfather was born in Woodbury, Connecticut , of Irish descent, and of a most strictly Irish Presbyterian family, as his own name Zephaniah, and his uncles', Levi and Malachi, most plainly show. The branches of the family were numerous, and t...