Name/Title
BookEntry/Object ID
1111.696.0001Scope and Content
Bible
9 3/4 inches x 6 1/2 inches. The cover is made of brown leather. Holy Bible. New York: American & Foreign Bible Society, 1855. Has some papers inserted where the deaths are recorded. Births and Marriages and Deaths begin with Thomas Gilkey Jr 1797, on pages taken from another larger Bible, and continue with the marriage of Thomas W Gilkey Jr w/ Martha Harlow. Other papers trace some part of family back to England in 17th c.
ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION: Thomas Gilkey Islesboro Maine.
Spine is falling apart.