Surnames within this posting: WASHBURN, ATHERTON, ALLEN, COX, ROBERTS, MIESNER, ROGERS, FERRIER, PERKINS, ROSS & MAFFET. Caleb WASHBURN - ATHERTON Bible Note - No citations have been found connecting this Caleb to the Silence & Jesse WASHBURN (My Line)ancestry however I'm sure a good deal of WASHBURN's descended from the Marriage of Caleb Washburn to Mehitable ALLEN in Northeast Pennsylvania. For this reason I offer the following citation: Easton Public Library 515 Church st. Easton, PA 610-258-2917 www.eastonpl.org County Seat of Northampton Marx History Room (I have photocopy of citation pages in PDF, e-mail me if you want it) Book "Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families" From the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Volume III Stauffer - Zerbe (with Bible Records) Indexed by Robert & Catherine Barnes Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1982 <<<<< BEGIN GENEALOGICAL CITATION >>>>> Page # 664 Bible Records ATHERTON BIBLE In possession of Thomas Henry Atherton, Esq., of Wilkes-Barre. James ATHERTON & Lydia WASHBURN were married May the 3rd, 1774. James ATHERTON * was born September the 19th, 1751. Lydia WASHBURN was born May the 16th, 1757. Jonathan WASHBURN was born January 28, 1760. Caleb WASHBURN was the father of Lydia WASHBURN, our Grandmother. Our great-grandmother was Mehitable Allen and wife of Caleb Washburne ** Mehitable ATHERTON was born June 16th, 1775. Elizabeth ATHERTON was born May 26th, 1777. Hannah ATHERTON was born September the 26th, 1779. Lydia ATHERTON was born January the 23rd, 1782. James ATHERTON was born March the 31st, 1784. Elisha ATHERTON was born May 7th, 1786. Sarah ATHERTON was born August the 18th, 1788. Mary ATHERTON was born January the 13th, 1791. Anna ATHERTON was born February the 17th, 1793. Ruth ATHERTON was born April 21st, 1795. Valentine C. ATHERTON was born May the 5th, 1797. Allen ATHERTON was born November 16th, 1799. Sylvina ATHERTON was born January 8th, 1804. Valentine Cook COX was born June the 21, 1828. Jane Ann COX was born July the 2, 1830. Sally M. COX was born August the 10th, 1831. Jonathan WASHBURN Died May 3rd, 1792, aged 32 years and 4 months. Allen ATHERTON Died Feb'y 21st, 1808, aged 9 years, 4 mo., 14 days. James ATHERTON Feb, 23rd, 1810, aged 26 years, 10 months, 5 days. Mehitable COX Died 20th August, 1826, aged 51 years, 1 month and 3 days. * The son of James ATHERTON of Lancaster, Massachusetts, and Sharon, Connecticut, one of the company of ninety-three pioneers, mostly from Connecticut, who in August, 1762, went to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, where James ATHERTON died October 29, 1798, aged eighty-three years, --- Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, vol. xviii, p, 701 et seq.: Miner's Wyoming, Appendix, p. 52. ** Caleb WASHBURN and Mehitable, daughter of Benjamin ALLEN, were married at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 27 May 1756. --- Bridgewater Town Records. Page # 665 James ATHERTON Died May the 5, 1828, aged 77 years, 7 months, 16 days; We lived together 54 years, 12 days.*** Elizabeth ROBERTS Died January the 30, 1829, aged 51 years, 8 months and 4 days. Ann COX died June the 8, 1835, aged 42 years, three months, 22 days. Elisha **** ATHERTON Died April 2d, 1853. Lydia ATHERTON Died June the 20, 1847, aged 90 years, one month and four days. Sally MIESNER died February the 2, 1867, aged 78 years, 5 months, 19 days. Mary Atherton MURPHY died Feb, 26, 1873, aged 85 years, one month and thirteen days. David ROGERS was born October the 20, 1797 and Died September the 30, 1866, aged sixty nine years, 11 months and 11 days. Sylvina A. ROGERS Died March 5, 1890, aged 86 years, one month, 26 days. On a fly-leaf opposite the title page is written: "This Bible is the property of Lydia ATHERTON, Kingston [Pennsylvania], July 16th, 1815." On the reverse side: "ied April the 12th in the year of our Lord 1803." *** Died at Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, as did his wife, Lydia WASHBURN ATHERTON. **** Married 1st, 10 October, 1810, Zilba, daughter of David and Sarah (FERRIER) PERKINS of Kingston, Penna., born 21 August, 1790; died 4 August, 1825. He married 2d, Caroline Ann, widow of Samuel MAFFET and daughter of General William ROSS of Wilkes-Barre. Issue by first marriage: Sarah ATHERTON, married William HENRY, 3rd, (1796-1878), founder of Scranton, Penna., Thomas ATHERTON, James ATHERTON, Lydia ATHERTON, Eliza Ross ATHERTON, Abbott MINER of Wilkes-Barre. <<<<< END OF GENEALOGICAL CITATION >>>>> ( Typed "as is" within book with all mistakes) Ken Maxwell [email protected]