Or, Subtitled: “Robert Leieard his book” and “Thomas Leneard, his Bible, 1784”
As the previous posting states, a bible that originally belonged to Robert Leonard and wife Honor passed down in the family of their son Thomas Leonard in Marshall County, Tennessee. This fragile old bible — to be specific, it’s a New Testament and not a complete bible — was printed in 1766. In 1981, it belonged to Thomas Leonard Wilson of Lewisburg, the county seat of Marshall County, Tennessee. I have not seen this bible and do not know its present whereabouts. Nor have I seen photocopies or digital images of what’s written in the bible. The information I have about the bible comes from Carolyn McAdams and Audrey M. Matthews, who offer slightly varying transcriptions of what two unidentified researchers who have seen the original bible find written in its water-damaged pages.[1] (For the continuation of this posting, please click the numeral 2 below.)
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 