1801 ABRAHAM VAN EPS FAMILY BIBLE

HERE IS A REAL IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FAMILY HEIRLOOM, FOR EITHER THE UNDERHILL OR THE VAN EPS FAMILY

IT IS RARE TO FIND A BIBLE OF THIS AGE, AND ONE THAT IS SO INTACT AND SOLID

THIS IS AN 1801, LEATHER COVERED, LARGE FAMILY BIBLE ONCE BELONGING TO THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM VAN EPS.

THIS BIBLE CONTAINS FOUR PAGES OF FAMILY RECORDS AND THE DATES EXTEND FROM 1764 TO 1890
THE EARLIEST ENTRY IS:
"ABRAHAM VAN EPS born the 20th Sept and baptised the 23rd of the same month Anno 1764,
by Dominy Vrooman."

THE SURNAMES IN THE BIBLE ARE VAN EPS, UNDERHILL, FREY, YOUNG, GLEN, KELLOGG, BURCHARD, AND HARVEY.

THE BIBLE WAS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY M. L. & W. A. DAVIS IN NEW YORK IN 1801.
THE BIBLE IS INTACT AND SOLID, WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT THE TITLE PAGE FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT IS MISSING, ALONG WITH ABOUT THE FIRST TWO PAGES OF GENESIS. THE BIBLE IS 9" X 11" IN SIZE AND IS LEATHER COVERED.
IT APPEARS THAT THERE WERE NO FORMAL FAMILY RECORDS PAGES IN THE BIBLE.
THE FOUR PAGES OF RECORDS ARE ON PARCHMENT TYPE PAPER AND WERE GLUED INTO THE BIBLE IN FRONT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. I WILL TRANSCRIBE THESE RECORDS EXACTLY AS THEY ARE IN THE BIBLE.

1813
Henry Frey married to Amelia Young on the 3rd day of March 1813 by the Reverend Cyrus Stibbins.

Copy of Doctor Nomyrs?/Thomyrs? certificate of the birth and baptism of Abr'm Van Eps son of Abr'm Van Eps and Susanna Glen borne the 20th Sept and baptised the 23rd of the same month Anno 1764 by Dominy Vrooman. {no certificate in the bible}

On the 20th day of January 1830 being Wednesday at 2 Oclock in the morning my wife Sarah {Underhill} was delivered of a Son Still born, but of full growth and perfect form, Whose name I had intended should have been Abr'm Underhill Van Eps. but God in his providential dispensation has thought best to deprive us of this mutual pledge of our love and hope to our great grief and sorrow, but O Lord enable us to bare with this disapointment as those that firmly submit to thy will.

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On the 14th of May 1831 being Freyday my wife Sarah was delivered of a Daughter between the hours of three and four O Clock in the morning & have named her Anna Maria Van Eps.

On the 16th June 1833 my wife Sarah was delivered of A Son & have named him Abr'm Underhill Van Eps.

On Saturday the 19th May 1836 between the hours of five and six O Clock in the afternoon my wife Sarah was delivered of A Daughter and have named her Sarah Van Eps

Died April 1834 - Abr'm Underhill Van Eps, Aged 10 mo's.

Died May 24th 1844 - Abrm Van Eps - aged 79yrs 9mo's 4days

Married by the Rev'd Samuel Burchard - Gustavus Adolphus Kellogg and Anna Maria Van Eps - October 4th 1849

Born - July 26th 1850 Sarah Underhill Kellogg

Died, April 1st 1851 Gustavus Adolphus Kellogg aged 27 years

Married - by the Rev H. Emmons - May 25th 1854 - Anna V. E. Kellogg & Cha's C. Kellogg

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Married - June 10th 1858 at Utica, N.Y. by the Rev P. H. Fowler -
Sarah Van Eps and Charles T. Harvey

Died - September 6th 1890 - Anna M. Van Eps, wife of Charles C. Kellogg, aged 58 years 3 months and 23 days

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Sarah M. Burchard - formerly wife of Abra'm Van Eps, died Dec 18th 1854 aged 55 years

There is also a loose piece of paper (8-1/2 x 11) of recent vintage, with the following notes:

Abraham Van Eps b. Schenectady, son of Abraham Van Eps and Susanna Glyn
d. 5/24/44
m. 1) Young, d.1828
m. 2) Sarah Machiel Underhill

see- Pomroy Jones - Annals & Recollections of Oneida Co. -1851

I HAVE A SECOND BIBLE, WHICH IS RELATED TO THIS BIBLE. IT IS AN 1806 BIBLE, ONCE BELONGING TO THE UNDERHILL FAMILY THE RELATIONSHIP IS THE FACT THAT ABRAHAM VAN EPS (above) MARRIED SARAH UNDERHILL AND THIS SECOND BIBLE HAS THE FAMILY RECORDS FOR SARAH, HER PARENTS AND HER SIBLINGS.

Created on ... December 21, 2003