A Glimpse Into Merriam Family Bible

Recently this Bible was purchased by a genealogist from West Brookfield who very graciously shared digital copies of the Title Page, the Family Register, and some lose items found within its pages.

Title Page from Bible of Ebenezer Merriam
Digital copy from D Hamilton Files. Received  15 April 2020
Used with permission.






The publishers information below has been slightly enlarged. The year shown is 1803

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The Family Register entries appear to have been written by at least two different people, with the earliest birth date Dec. 15, 1777, and the latest death date April 9, 1894.













             The loose items found in the Bible included:

• A receipt in the amount of $.25 dated November 28, 1855, from the Western Railroad Corporation for transporting apples. 
• A list of ministers of the West Brookfield Congregational Church from the years 1717-1871 clipped from a newspaper.
• Two clipped different newspaper obituaries of Capt. E. P. Merriam
• A printed copy of a poem from Charles Merriam to his cousin Ebenezer Parsons Merriam of West Brookfield on his 69th Birthday November 16, 1873

You may be interested in an earlier post on the Merriam Family Ebenezer Merriam - Printer

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