Henry Brown Family Bible
Holy Bible in English; [title page missing, from NT title page] John Holbrook,
Brattleborough, Vermont, 1816.

The Family Bible of Henry and Abigail (Stafford) Brown, later used by their
daughter, Mary Elisabeth Brown and her husband Sylvester Preston. They were
from the Albany, NY area.

The Bible is now in the possession of the C. G. Brisee Genealogy Library,
Irwin, Iowa.


Marriage
Henry Brown was born in Hosack in the Year of our Lord 1796 Sept 29th
Abigail Stafford was born in Taunton in the Year of our Lord 1796 Oct'r 5th

Henry Brown and Abigail Stafford Married by the Reverand Mr John Finley
Minister of the Baptist Church in the City of Albany - in the Year of Our Lord -
One Thousand Eight Hundred & Nineteen Sunday 19th Dec'r December 1819

Births & Deaths
James Henry Brown in the Year of Our Lord 1820 September 16th
Died the 5 of March 1823 Aged 2 years 5 months 16 days

John Brown Born January th 13th 1823
Died the 19th of February 1823 Aged 1 month 6 days

Peter Brown Born March the 3d 1825

Mary Elisabeth Brown born January th 28th 1826

Lucinda Mariah Brown Born Sept the 27th 1827
Lucinda M Brown Died February the 27th 1893 Aged 15 years and 5 months

Milton Brown Born June the 5th 1827
Milton Died March the 26th 1830. Aged 10 months

Charles Mahan born August the 9th 1829

Henry Brown died October the 7th 1833 Aged 37 years and 9 days

Abbie Van denburgh Died Oct. 27th 1867 Aged 69 years and 22 days.

Marriage
Sylvester Preston was born in Monroe Co NY in the year of our Lord 1816
November 25th
Mary Elisebeth Brown was born in Albany in the year of our lord 1826 January
28th

Sylvester Preston and Mary Elisebeth Brown Maried by Reverend James M
Caley Minister of the Baptist Church in the City of Albany in the year of our
lord Feduary 21,,1844

Births & Deaths
Harriet Preston Born January the 11. 1846
Harriet Preston Died November 22,, 1847

Alba Jane Preston born April the 15. 1847

Emma Josephine Preston Born January 7, 1849

Franklin B. Preston, Born, April 27, 1853.

James Wallace Preston Born Sept 16th 1854
James Wallace Preston died Feb 5th 1856

Marg. Loena,, Preston,, Born, October, the, 3d, 1856

Carrie Marria Preston, Born, May, 14th, 1865

Franklin Sylvester Preston Born Feb 14 1877
Franklin Sylvester Preston died September 27th 1879


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