The genealogical collection of Newtown's Cyrenius H.Booth Library includes Bible records from a number of Newtown/Danbury area families, including:  BEARDSLEY, BEERS, BURR, FAIRCHILD, HAWLEY, PECK,OLIVER, TAYLOR, and WINTON.  The family record pages have been removed from these Bibles and are kept in vertical file folders.  They are being published as a series in Connecticut Ancestry.  Spellings are maintained in these transcriptions, and word arrangement simulates that of the original record.

Abel TAYLOR Family

This Bible was published by M. Carey & Son, Philadelphia, in 1818.  Undated notes on stationery of Miss Jessie I. Henderson, Whisconier Hill, Brookfield Center, CT,include copies of some of the Bible record, adding "Miriam Lawrence Taylor - a member of D.A.R. thru her great-grandmother Sarah Ann Smith."  And in pencil on the same page, "Gift from Miss Jessie Henderson for Hist. Soc.?"  

On a second sheet of the same notepaper and in a different hand we read, "These houses were all in Newtown before Newbury was formed. Daniel Smith died July 25, 1839, in 70 yr. of his age. Born 1769.  Lived in the old red house that was torn down when Millers owned the property."

Marriages
Abel Seelye Taylor Married to Sarah Ann Smith  June 5th  1816
Thomas~ Married to Miriam Lawrence  November 10th  1841
Gran[d]son Almon Henry Taylor Married to Margaret Brown  Sept Oct12th  1865

Births (column one)
I Abel S. Taylor was born September 30th  1792.  my Fathers name was Joshua who was the son of Mathew who was the son of Nathan who was the son of Thomas, one of the first settlers of Danbury. —
my Mothers name was Eunice, daughter of James Seelye, born November 20th  1757. —
my wife Sarah Ann, daughter of Daniel & Anna Smith born March 11th  1799 —
my son Thomas Smith [Taylor] born May 28th  1819 —
grandson Almon Henry [Taylor] born July 14th  1843 —
great grandson William Brown Taylor Born July 14th  1867

(column two)
Brothers & Sisters
Azel born March 27 1784, Died August 10th  1850
Sally born April 11th  1786, Died June 1806
Eunice born October 11, 1788, Died December 11,1832 [Nov. 11 in d. record]
Levi born October 11 1790, Died Decm 25th  1833
Abel born September 30, 1792
Joel born Feby 14, 1795, Died June 6, 1870
 [interlined]  Linda Died May 2, 1870
Clarissa born Feby 14, 1797
Chlorinda born Novbr  19, 1799
Esther born Janry 27, 1804, [died] Decbr 14, 1867

Great Grand Child Mariam Lawrence Taylor born January 20th  1869
Great Grandson Almon Henry Taylor born Aug 30th  1873          

(column three)
Smith Family
Daniel Smith Born Sept  18, 1769
Anna Sherman Born Janry  1st  1770
Sarah Hoyt Born Decbr 17, 1774
Russel Smith Born Augst 21, 1796
Cyntha Knapp Born [blank]
Sarah Ann Smith Born March 11, 1799
Julia Smith Born July 10, 1802
Zar Smith Born March 30, 1805
Polly [Seline?] Born March 7, 1807
Daniel [ Hanson?] Born Novr  [22?], 1809
Henry Hoyt Smith Born June 5, 1814
Emeline Smith Born July 5, 1817

Zar Smith at the time of his death left a widow and four Children:  Mortimer, Almira, Mary A. & Kit

Deaths (column one)
Joshua Taylor died August 27th  1804 aged 52 years
Anna Smith Died September 19th  1810 in her 41st year
Sally Taylor Died June 23d  1806  aged 20 Years
Daniel Smith Died July 25th  1839 in the 70th  year of his age in the full hope of a         better ressurection beyond the grave
Eunice Taylor Died August 10th  1847 in the 90th  year of her age.  was helpless more than 16 years, and Bloind about 15. - had Nine Children, 43 Grand Children, 27 Great Grand Children, total 79 —

Step mother
  Sarah Smith Died November 25th  1849  Aged 75
our own Great Grand Child William Brown Taylor Died December 2d  1867
Great Grandson Almon Henry Taylor died Oct 23, 1873

(column two)
Azel Taylor      Died  August 10, 1850
Sally "       " June [blank] 1806
Levi "       " Decbr 25, 1833
Eunice     "        "     Novbr  11, 1852
Joel  "       " June 6, 1870
Linda, wf Joel    "     May 2, 1870
Esther Dibble      "    Decbr 14, 1867
Abel S. Taylor    "     Jan 12,1875  age 82
Clarissa              "     Nov 25, 1875  age 81
Thomas Smith Taylor So. of Abel S. Taylor died Oct 4th1898
  age 79 yrs. 4 mos. 6 days
Almon Henry Taylor  son of Thomas S. Taylor died Dec. 7th  1917
  age 74 yrs. 4 mos. 23 days

(column three)
Russel Smith Died August 26 1855
Cyntha     "        "     March 27, 1847
Zar Smith  " October 21, 1866
Sarah Ann Taylor died Sept 4th 1885 Wife of Abel S. Taylor
age 86 yrs. 5 mo. 23 da.

Mariam Lawrence wife of Thomas S. Taylor died Aug. 23rd 1902
  age 83 yrs. 9 mos. 10 days
Margaret Brown Taylor  wife of Almon H. Taylor died Nov 15th  1921
  age 7y yrs. 1 mo. 15 da's
[blue pen, modern hand]
Miriam Lawrence Taylor daughter of Almon Henry Taylor and Margaret Brown Taylor died Sept 5, 1957.  Aged 88yrs. 7 months 16 days.

Laban N. OLIVER Family

This Bible, published by Edmund Cushing, Lunenburg , MA, 1830, contained but a single leaf of family data recorded on separate strips of paper glued onto the Family Record page.  Removal of these separate strips revealed an earlier record written in clear hand, apparently all at one time, and including dates but not places of the children's births.  In two cases, noted below, the names on the pasted strips are variants of the earlier record.

Births
Laban N. Oliver born in N. York [Nov 1st  1801, added in pencil]
Celany Jane Oliver born in Huntington,Fairfield County, Con.
  1798 Feb 1st [m. & d. added and year corrected from 1801, in pencil]
Mary Frances Oliver was born in Dutches County NY
  Sept 7th  1823
Henry Wallis Oliver born in Huntington Fairfield County Conn.  
  July 22d  1825
Richard Laban Oliver born in Torrington Litchfield County Conn  
  March 30th  1826
Huldah Jane Oliver was born in Torrington Litchfield County Conn
  Oct 17th 1828
George Dexter Oliver born in Winchester Litchfield Cou Conn
  December 5th  1830
Eli Josiah [Josiah Eli in earlier record] Oliver born in Goshen Litchfield County Conn   March 1st  1832
Charles Edger Oliver born in Goshen Litchfield County Conn
  Oct 20th  1834
Sidney Shelton [Sidney Dexter in earlier record] Oliver born in Goshen Litchfield County Conn   June 24th  1836
Amanda Eliza Oliver born in Plymouth Litchfield County Conn
  April 23d  1839

Marriages (continued in Births columns)
Sidney S. Oliver Married Ann L. Knights New Years eve 1857 In Monson
Huldah [Jane , in pencil] Oliver Married to James [P, added] Mc Cabe March 12th  1849   New Haven

Marriages (continued)
Mary F. Oliver Married to Otis Baily  Jany 1st 1854 in Ware Village  [pencilled "X's" over groom's names]
Amanda E Married to Andrew J Morgan   Nov 25, 1855 [corrected in pencil from Nov 26, 1856]

Deaths
L.M. Oliver Died March 3d  1867 at West Goshen at Huldahs was burried in Goshen March 7th  1867
Celany Jane Oliver died in Hartford Conn. 1882. Aged 84 Years.
Charles Edgar Oliver Departed this life Sept 10 1854   Aged 19 y 10mo 10 days
Richard left home & went into the Army staid his time out but has never returnd 1856 - - 1861
   He went to Frazier River Gold Fields in 1858 never heard of after.
Eli Josiah Oliver Died in Springfield Ohio in 1908