Family record pages from Roberts Family Bibles
Scope and Contents
Evan and Marget Robarts Family Bible (1716)
Tamar Roberts Family Bible (1803)
Identified by donors as the Family Bible of the paternal grandparents of Tamar Roberts (who married Asa Matlack); they are: Evan Roberts (1715-1779) and Margaret Walton (d. 1759), Welsh Quaker families from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
#1 - Bible of Evan Roberts (1715-1779) and Margaret Walton (d. 1759). Note - rebound and partial Bible, (1716?), missing front pages and family records deep in binding. Bookplate of Wm. R. Stackhouse glued inside front cover with note: " ? of the family bible of John and Letitia Roberts my great grandparents/WR Stackhouse" Pages removed between Apocrypha and New Testament.
#2- Family Bible of Tamar Robert, 1803. "This Bible is the property of Tamar Roberts Bought 5 month 1807." Also book plate of Wm R Stackhouse inside front cover. Family records written between Old Testment and the Apocrypha. First record is the marriage of Asa Matlack and Tamar Roberts, 1807. Slip of paper hand-sewed into Record with an account of the Births of the children of John and Letitia Roberts. Tamar was first born, 6 mo 13 1783.
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