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bible I am not willing to provide photocopies or scans of the original at this time. Description of the David Howard Bible. Condition: Both front and back covers are detached from the body, but clearly belong to the rest of the book. Pages are fragile, but not crumbling. The inside of the front cover is illustrated by hand in black, red, and green ink. The general design is a large white circle, which pretty much fills the lower two thirds of the page, with the figure of a man looking over the top. The straight line background and the figure are in black ink. Within the circle, the words The Property of Mr. are in red, and David Howard in green, and at the bottom 1795" in red. Beneath the circle are the word Writen by J, and the rest is not intelligible to me although it looks something like IamHH. There are some few pages missingpossibly only one or two. The first page contains the Evening Prayer and starts With his own right hand, and with his holy book: hath he gotten himself the victory. The beginning of the book contains a variety of sections prior to the beginning of the Old Testament (e.g. The Collects, The Order for the Visitation of the Sick, His Majestys Declaration, and Articles of Religion, among others). The pages are not numbered sequentially, although some of the sections do number their pages internally to that section. After these prefacing sections there is a title page which reads: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majestys Special Command, Appointed to be read in Churches. Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University. MDCCLX. Next follows the dedication to King James; and then Genesis. Due to the fragile condition of the bible, I have not looked at each and every page. However, I have found four pages containing records. (A) On the last page of the Book of Prophets (this is written in very legible cursive with a brown ink, apparently at one sitting, except for two insertions in a different hand in black ink which I have bracketed): June 7th 1764 Married David Howard and Priscilla
[Knowlton] his Wife
(B) On the back of this page, on what would otherwise have been a blank page facing the beginning of the Apocrypha, the following is written very nicely (perhaps professionally) in block letters resembling type (I will not bother reproducing the formatting here, but the dates are all lined up in a column on the right, as the names are on the left. Also, I cannot adequately reproduce the superscripting used in the month names, so I will use standard abbreviations.): Children belonging to Jno. Hayward The last line is not entirely legible due to fraying, but the name could be Hannah or Eunice.
(C) On the last page of the Apocrypha, in a good cursive script, in black ink (and very much like the black ink hand mentioned in (A) above): Marsha (or Marcia) Howard, daughter of David & Priscilla (Knowlton) Howard, married Marcus Taft / Son of Daniel and Rhoda (Ellis) Taft, formerly of Mendon, Mass. Marcia Taft died Dec. 15, 1860, aged 75. Children of Marcus & Marcia Taft. [now back to the black ink]
(D) Immediately following the preceding, is the title page for the New Testament, on the back of which is the following (I am identifying two hands here, but they could be the same): John Hayward of Ashford [new hand, different ink] [gap before separate entry-hand looks like
that of first entry on this page] [entry in second hand]
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