Toby - Fearing Family Bible: The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha: translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by the special command of King James I. of England. With marginal notes and references. To which are added, an index ; an alphabetical table of all the names in the Old and New Testaments, with their significations ; and, tables of scripture weights, measures, and coins. Embellished with a map of Palestine, and nine historical engravings.

Samuel Etheridge

Charlestown (Mass.) : Printed by and for Samuel Etheridge and for Thomas and Andrews, 1803

(Toby or Tobey - Fearing Family Bible) 2 volumes in 1. Quarto,  30 x 25 cm. Bound in contemporary full calf. Rebacked, with spine conserved. New red leather spine label with gilt. Marbled end sheets. Foxing, spotting, mostly to first few gatherings of pages. Offsetting to frontispiece illustration.  Text printed in two columns. [972] p. Plates, folded map.  Shaw et Shoemaker, 3789.  

Family Records have extensive genealogical records of the Toby family. Also includes related manuscript genealogical ephemera for the Fearing family, tracing the Fearings from John Fearing of Cambridge, England, who settled in Massachusetts in 1635. Many of the entries appear to be by Hannah (Fearing) Bourne Toby.  Hannah (1775-1859) was the daughter of Revolutionary War Major Israel Fearing and Lucy Bourne.  Hannah married Joshua Toby (1772-1814) in 1796 in Plymouth Mass.  They had four children, William Henry Tobey, Noah Fearing Tobey, Lucy Ann Tobey, Hannah Barnard Tobey (all born in Kinderhook, or Hudson, Columbia, New York).  The book then passed to the family of William Henry Tobey (1799-1878).  The final entry is for Mary Barnard Toby (1848-1936) and her husband Peter van Schaak Pruyn (1841-1891) of Kinderhook NY.  This Bible was in the Toby family for over 133 years.