Bates Family Historians, No one has claimed the 1799 Bible of Elihu Bates, 1772-1821, that I promised to donate to a descendant, so I mailed it off today to the National Bates Association. As promised, I am enclosing below a transcript of what is written in the Bible. After that is a transcript of a letter found between the pages. Some of you will recognize Elihu as a member of the "Bates of Weymouth" as described in this excerpt from the 1929 Bates Bulletin: ----------- 48. ELNATHAN 5 (John 4, 3, Edward 2, 1) was born at Weymouth Mass, April 23, 1736; married Ruth, daughter of Samuel and Experience (Paine) Hunt, intention April 11, 1760. ... He died Feb. 27, 1820; she died Oct. 28, 1824. Their children were: ..... vi. Elihu, Aug. 28, 1772; married Mary, daughter of John and Sarah Leach of Boston. ----------- No children of Elihu were given in that paper. The entire "Bates of Weymouth" family can be found in the Broderbund World Family Tree, V.8, Tree#0196. If you would like a photocopy of the Bible inscriptions, send me a SASE. Any further correspondence about the Bible should be addressed to: Sandy Bates <SBates1011@aol.com> She is the Membership Chair and the Librarian for the National Bates Association. You may be interested to know that I received 117 messages as a result of advertising the Bates Bible. Many are second or third messages from the same person. Some of you may get two copies of this message, because I am posting it on BATES-L and also sending it to those who wrote to me. George George W. Anderson Jr. | Voice: 925 846 4265 635 Oak Circle | E-mail: gwa@ccnet.com Pleasanton, CA 94566 USA | Web: http://www.ccnet.com/~gwa/ - ----------------------------------------------------------- Family Record of Elihu and Mary Bates Elihu Bates, Senr., Married to Mary Leach September 7th 1797. 1. John Adams, Born July 9th 1798 it being on Monday 2 O'clock P.M. 2. Elihu Junr. Born August 27th 1801 at 7 o'clock PM Thursday. 3. Mary Leach Born November 2d 1802 6 oclock AM it being on Tuesday 4. Henry, Born Friday 25th Jany 1805 at 7 O'clock PM 5. Joseph Loud. Born 25 Novr 1806 at 8 ock AM on Tuesday. Deaths Mr. Elihu Bates senr died April 25th 1821 aged 48 years and 8 months. Mr. Elihu Bates junr died August 30 1821 aged 20 years and three days. Marriages [The title is handwritten, but no marriages are listed.] --------- A letter (no date) found between the pages is as follows: -------- Dear Brother, It is with regret that I have to inform you that Capt. Snow died this afternoon after a illness of 8 days. The mate has been very ill but not dangerously. I alone, thank God, have escaped being sick and hope and pray I may not be. I expect to sail from here in about a week. Give my love to mother Sister Brother my respects to all my good friends. [signature illegible] -------------