The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha  (Brown : Spalding Family Bible of North Stonington, New London, Connecticut))

Euince Spalding Brown; etc.

Luther Roby, Concord, N.H., 1850

[Brown Family Bible: Early Connecticut Ownership with extensive original ephemera and letters]  Quarto; 29 cm.  Bound in contemporary blind tooled red calf.   Gilt spine.  Toning, scattered staining.  576, 96, 579-768, 31 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates.  Includes related genealogical ephemera.  Including large early photograph (Eunice Spalding Brown?), additional early photograph from Mystic, CT, news clippings from the 1850s, 1860s. 1870s.  Numerous family letters, paper notes, printed advertisements, ribbons, textiles, etc!   Family Records section has extensive notes. Two leaves for family records inserted after Apocrypha. Earliest birth record is of John Spalding, 1785 and his wife.  Includes extensive records of the Brown Family, Thatcher Brown (1801 - 27 Aug 1879), Eunice Spalding Brown (1805 - 28 Sep 1892), Thatcher E. Brown, Amanda Brown, William Brown, John Spalding Brown, Thatcher Brown Jr., Eunice Victoria Brown, Lucy Ann Brown, etc.