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Wednesday, September 18. 2013

Found cleaning out my parents' house

A Sherwood family Bible (ancestors from Greenwich, CT). Congregationalists, like almost everybody in New England at the time. Somebody scribbled comments on some of the NT verses.


Posted by Bird Dog at 05:00 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Quite a find. Hoarding at its best?
#1 fred zeppelin on 2013-09-18 06:57 (Reply)
http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/holy-bible/sortby/1/page-1/

Further reseach is definitely necessary, but you may have found yourself a winner there.......

Congrats!!!
#2 NJ Mike on 2013-09-18 10:09 (Reply)
My paternal grandfather, since he was the oldest surviving male in the line, had the family bible dating from 1765. I saw it numerous times as a child since it had pride of place in the home. It had been brought over with whomever it was that crossed the Atlantic to GA and then AL in 1795. Lost in a house fire.
#3 Knucklehead (Link) on 2013-09-18 11:03 (Reply)
Small world. My family is a branch of the Sherwoods from CT. It runs up through Amos Sherwood (both of them) to Thomas. Amos the younger left CT for upstate NY, and then his son Harvey went to MI, to farm apples. I'd love to share notes on the family history, if it's the same lineage. I'm just starting to poke around the various family trees.
#4 DMac on 2013-09-18 11:58 (Reply)
Was your Thomas Sherwood married to Sarah Seabrook with a daughter Mary who married Josiah Tibbals? If so, we are (very distantly) related.
#5 BetsyB on 2013-09-18 20:43 (Reply)
The charts I have show Thomas (1745-1808) married to Ann Burr.
#5.1 DMac on 2013-09-18 21:31 (Reply)
BetsyB, sorry, the dates for Thomas are 1719-1798. The other dates are for their son Amos.
#5.2 DMac on 2013-09-18 21:38 (Reply)
Could be the grandson/great grandson of my Thomas, I don't have dates on him but his daughter Mary was born c. 1650.
#5.2.1 BetsyB on 2013-09-19 11:29 (Reply)
That's a great find, BD!
#6 mudbug on 2013-09-18 21:52 (Reply)

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