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HEMPHILL BIBLE

Owner – Loose card in back says “Contains family record of Robert Hemphill 1765-1852…Malta”.

Description – The HOLY BIBLE containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT with the APOCRYPHA. New York: Printed for William Durell, Bookseller, No 106, Maiden Lane By George F Hopkins, at Washington’s Head. 1801

Large Bible (10 x 14 x 4), brown, intact, with worn cover. No formal family pages. Family record hand written after p 862 in the APOCRYPHA. Also, loose papers with family notes.

Page 1

Marriages - Robert Hemphill first Married to Annis Dinsmore February 1793

Robert Hemphill’s second Marriage to Elisabeth Hawkins

March [3 or13] 1803

Nathaniel Hemphill was Married to Jerusha Payn

Jerusha Payn Born May 21th 1801

Annis Hemphill Born Sep 8^th 1823

Elizabeth Hemphill Born March 17^th 1825

Mary Hemphill Born May 27 1828

Sarah Hemphill Born July 14 1833

Lois Hemphill Born Oct 13 1835

[All of the above are in the same handwriting]

Robert Hemphill Born Jan 8 1839

Elizabeth Hemphill Married to Thompson S Hollister Oct 12^th [1836]

Augustus H Hemphill Married to Adelia Badgley Feb 17^th 1841

Annie A Hemphill Married to LaFayette B Collamer Aug 22^nd 1883

Page 2

Births - Robert Hemphill Born Oct 1^st 1765

Annis Dinsmore Born [no entry]

Elisabeth Hawkins Born Dec 29^th 1772

Nathaniel Hemphill Born June 30^th 1794

Robert Hemphill Born [no entry] Dec 1 1796 [on loose paper]

William Hemphill Born Feb 1 1806

Henry Hemphill Born May 25^th 1809

Augustus H Hemphill Born Feb 24^th 1812

Elisabeth Hemphill Born Jan 24^th 1814

Adelia Hemphill Born Oct 9^th 1816 [wife of Augustus]

Annie A Hemphill Born Feb 12^th 1862 [adopted daughter of Augustus]

Page 3

Deaths - Annis Hemphill Died [no entry] – [Aug 8, 1801 – findagrave.com]

Henry Hemphill Died July 11 1810

William Hemphill Died May 15 1833

Robert Hemphill Died April 3d 1852

Elizabeth Hemphill Died Nov 10^th 1852

Augustus H Hemphill Died Aug 25 1883

Elisabeth H Hollister Died Feb 5 1892

Adelia B Hemphill Died Dec 8 1902

Location – Brookside Museum, 6 Charlton St., Ballston Spa, NY 12020

Catalog # - 1964.034.0001 U107L05 Transcribed by J. Wickizer, 16 May 2012

“Bible of the Robert Hemphill family, early settlers of the Town of Malta”

A sampler [1964.034.0002] was also donated to Brookside Museum; the “family record of Nathanial Hemphill and his wife Agnes Park. Their son, Robert, born October 1, 1765 was an early land owner in the Dunning Street section of the Town of Malta circa 1800. The sampler was probably made shortly after the last date which is recorded on it (1801)”

Bible and sampler gifted from Mrs. Lewis C Brown (Blanche H), “a descendent of the Hemphills and inherited the family bible and the sampler through her mother, Mrs LaFayette B Collamer, the former Annie Avery Hemphill, adopted daughter of Augustus H and Adelia B Hemphill”. [The quoted notes are from the Brookside accession book]

“Robert Hemple, father of A.H. Hemple, of Malta, came to the town about 1804. He bought a part of the Dunning tract, including the Dunning tavern, on the site of Seddon's store. Mr. Hemple kept a public-house fifteen years. A noted circumstance of this family is stated, that Robert Hemple was the eldest of eighteen children; that there was no death in the family until the youngest child was fifteen years of age. The name is frequently spelled Hemphill.”

Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett, History of Saratoga County, New York. Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1878.