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.
 
Zar WINTON Family

This Bible was published in 1852 by Alden, Beardsley & Co. of Auburn [NY].  Included was an undated, typed page reading:
 
"This Bible originally belonged to Zar Winton - a farmer who resided on what is now called Osborne Hill Rd., Gray's Plain District, Newtown.  The lovely old Winton homestead burned to the ground in 1881, and Mr. Winton's son, George , built a house on Bennetts Bridge Rd.,now owned by the Kearns family.

George Winton was a citizen of considerable reknown - he served as district Tax Collector, on the Gray's Plain School Board, as a member of the State Legislature in 1877, and as Second Selectman for many years.  He was appointed postmaster in Sandy Hook November 23, 1885. Mr. Winton married the former Sarah Jordon in 1852 - they were my great-great-grandparents.  

                                                                                                                                          NANCY M. JONES - a former resident of
                                                                                                                                                                  Newtown, now residing
                                                                                                                                                                        in Sherman, Conn."
  
            Marriages (first column)                                           
            Zar & Delia Winton Married March 19, 1815 [year probable, smudged]
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            Jared B. & Cornelia Winton Married April 27, 1837
            Henry L. & Polly A. Winton Married November 22, 1842
            Francis O. & Eliza Winton Married April 25, 1848
            George & Sarah Winton Married May 2, 1853
            (second column)
            Czar E. & Mary E. Winton Married Oct 23d  1860
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            their Children [continuing in  marriage column]
            Lillian Gertrude Born June 31st 1862
            [interlined]  Mrs. Lillian Mallet Died Aug 1924
            [in adjacent margin]  Lillian Walker Died Apr 9 1921  Age 28
                  Elba
            Julia ^ Born September 16th  1863
            Franklin Miles Born September21st 1865
            Died May 22nd 1914
            Buried in Woodbury
  
Births and deaths are generally juxtaposed in adjacent columns:
  
                           Births                      (first page)                       Deaths
Zar Winton born                                               Zar Winton Died May 21th  1876
  December 21, 1790                                         Age 85, 5 Months
Delia Winton born                                            Delia Winton Died Oct 1st 1868
 December 10, 1796                                          Age 72
---------------------------                                   Cornelia Winton died January 26,
                                                                         1907. Wife of J. B. Winton.
Jared B. Winton born                                       Jared B. Winton Died Nov 31th 1882
  January 31, 1816                                             Age 66  11 Months
Henry L. Winton born                                       Henry L. Winton Died June 10th   
  March 29, 1822                                               1884.  Age 62
Francis O. Winton born                                    Francis Oscar Winton Died May 15th
 January 28, 1827                                              1882.  Age 55
George Winton born                                         Geo Winton Died Oct 26, 1917
 April 8, 1832                                                   Age 85 - 6 months
  
                                                      (second page)
Jared B. Winton's Children                               Albert B. Winton Died [blank]
Albert B. Winton                                              Mariette Morehouse Winton Widow      
  born August 11, 1838                                       Died May29, 1913.  Age 62nd Year
Zar E. Winton born
  July 27, 1840                                                   
Edmond E. Winton                                          E. Eugene Winton Died [blank]
  born August 23, 1842
Sarah Delia Winton         Sarah Delia Winton Wife Wellington
  born September 9, 1845                                   R. Tolles[?]Jan 30, 1907.  Age 61
Hobart H. Winton
   born April 2, 1849                                            Died June 17, 1856
Frank J. Winton        
born December 26, 1854                                     Died June 10, 1856
  
                                                        (third page)
Henry L. Wintons Children                               Wife H.L. Winton died Apr. 13,
                                                                       1901.  Age [76 in pencil]
Mary Estelle Winton                                    
  born May 19, 1852
                                                                       Wife of Oscar R.Winton,  
Oscar F. Wintons Children                               Eliza Died June 3th 1897.  Aged 71
Isabel J[?] Winton born                                  Mrs. John H. Blackman Died Aug 16
  August 1, 1852                                                  Year 1913.  Age 61
Charles W. Winton                                         Charles W. Winton
  born December 20, 1854                                 Died Feb 13, 1927.  Age 72
Eugene O. Winton Born                                  Oscar E. Winton Drowned
 July 4th 1864                                                   Sep 1st  1895.  Age 31 [note
                                                                          name change]
Sarah Jordon born Dec                                    Sarah Jordon Winton
   17, 1830.  Wife of  [blank]                               Died Aug 22, 1920.  Age 89
George Winton's Children
Adeline A. Winton born                                    Adeline A. Winton [died]
  January 20, 1854                                              Feb.28, 1942

  
                           Births                 (third page, cont'd)                Deaths
Willie D. Winton born                                       William D. Winton Died
October 14, 1857.  Grand[mother,                   Jan. 6, 1923.  Age 66.
   may refer to Georgie, below]                         Elsie Jane Bradley died
Georgie May born May                                    May 17, 1881.  Age 22.
7, 1879                                                           Wife of Willie D.Winton
Elsie May born May 9, 1881                            [ Elsie May] Died Sep 26th  1881.
  
Margins of above page
            Married Erving S. Jones nov 12, 1920  [refers to Gladys, below]          
            Gladys W. Osborne borne August 3, 1900
            Georgia May Winton married Charles Edward Osborne June 1899
            Daughter & GrandDa of Willie D. Winton.              [Charles]Borne May 10, 1876
            Gladys W. Osborne married Irving S. Jones nov 12, 1920
                Daughter Nancy May Jones Borne December 3, 1930
            Edward Osborne Died July 4, 1933,Age 57, Burried in Stepney.
            Georgia May Winton Osborne, his wife, Died April 30, 1966, age 86, Buried                Newtown
  
            On blank reverse of Biblical illustration
            Charles W. Winton married Frances Nichols July 4,1875.
            Charles & Francis Wintons C[h]ildren
            Clarrabell Winton Borne May 4,1876.
            Charles Marchel Winton Borne March 14, 1878.
            Clarrence E. Winton Died October 19, 1901 with Hart Trouble, Age 21
                                  Born Nov29, 1880.
            Florrance M. Winton Borne March 26, 1893.
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            Charles M. Winton married Lillian Hubble Oct 9, 1901.
                                  Feb 14 Died1918, Age 38
            Daughter Dorretta Eliza Borne Aug 24, 1906.
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            Claribel married Howard W. Bassett July 21, 1897.
                                  Bassett Died Sep 25, Age 43, 1919
            Claribel died [blank] 1958, Age82
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            Sister to Charles W. Winton  Isabell married Dec 1875
                 to John H. Blackman.  he Died Jan 7, 1920.  Age 72.
            Charles Wintons Wife Francis Died Oct 28, 1916.  Age 63.
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            Irving S. Jones Died November5, 1960 - buried Newtown Village Cem.
            Gladys Winton (Osborne) Jones died March 25, 1981, buried N.V. Cem.