1820 Old HOLY BIBLE THOMAS HOPKINS SMALLEY ST. GEORGE MAINE  Family GENEALOGY



CONDITION:  Circa 200 years old with one significant flaw.  The title page is missing and the book begins after the front flyleaf with the first page of Genesis as pictured above and below.  No date but research shows the Massachusetts Bible Society was founded in  1809.  It appears this book belonged to Thomas H. Smalley born in 1802, as he signed his name and the words "His Book" twice on the front free endpaper. (St. George is also found written twice on the front free endpaper).  His death recorded on the front flyleaf and on the rear flyleaf (along with his brother Addam) is in a different hand, as is the last 4 births recorded on the first rear flyleaf. (All pictured below).  He passed away in 1826.  Somewhere in between 1802 - 1826 he was given this book - hence the circa 1820 date.

  Front free endpaper almost loose and endpapers are chipped and torn as pictured. The main text block appears complete.  All pages are tightly bound and boards are securely attached, some page tips turned over and slips of paper inserted to mark certain pages. Pencil scribbles on front and rear endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout.

Full leather with four raised bands on spine and original spine label intact.  Leather chipped off at bottom of spine and inner bottom corner of front board as pictured.  Other wear to boards as pictured. "Massachusetts Bible Society" stamped seal on front board The Bible measures 7  1/4"  x  4  1/2" and is 3" thick.

(Many photos below the genealogy data).

Here is some information found on the Web about the Thomas Hopkins Smalley family of St. George, ME.

 

ID: I104372 Name: Thomas Hopkins Smalley Given Name: Thomas Hopkins Surname: Smalley Sex: M _UID: BB0EA23E7F75446599677139AAE1A0536EEE Change Date: 25 JUN 2013 1 Birth: 8 OCT 1776 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Death: 17 FEB 1854 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Father: Joshua Smalley b: 25 DEC 1748 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Mother: Keturah Hopkins b: 8 OCT 1754 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Marriage 1 Sally Wiley b: 3 NOV 1783 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Married: 1801 Children Thomas Hopkins Smalley b: 23 NOV 1802 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Levi Smalley b: 18 SEP 1804 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Adam Smalley b: 3 JUN 1806 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Marriage 2 Elizabeth Wiley b: 24 DEC 1788 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Married: 1808 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Children Eliza Smalley b: 9 OCT 1809 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Joshua Smalley b: 8 NOV 1811 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Sally W. Smalley b: 24 AUG 1814 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Margaret Barter Smalley b: 22 APR 1817 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Mary Jane Smalley b: 9 APR 1820 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine William W. Smalley b: 14 NOV 1823 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Caroline Otis Smalley b: 11 OCT 1825 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine John H. Smalley b: 7 DEC 1828 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Thomas H. Smalley b: 16 SEP 1832 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine Lucy L. Smalley b: ABT 1834 in St. George, Lincoln, Maine http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coyote1&id=I104372

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/a/l/John-M-Falla-Tenants-Harbor/COL3-0271.html

The second son, Levi Smalley, was a lighthouse keeper on Tenant's Harbor, ME.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=530 
Levi Smalley of St. George was the first keeper to live in the little red house (with his wife Lucy and daughter Sarah) and care for the light in the white tower with its red lantern and ventilator ball. Smalley was followed in 1867 by a blacksmith from St. George named John A. Farnham.

The Massachusetts Bible Society is a Christian, ecumenical organization founded on July 6, 1809 at a ceremony in the Representatives Chamber of the Massachusetts State House. It was formally incorporated on February 10, 1810 and is the third oldest Bible Society in the United States, following the Philadelphia society, founded December 12, 1808 (now known as the Pennsylvania Bible Society),^[1] and the Connecticut society, founded in the Spring of 1809.^[2] The offices of the society are located in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on the campus of Andover Newton Theological School.