While looking for baseball stuff...I found this...

[smokelessjoe]

Hey Peter,

Here is something very similar to your original post... I found this at an estate as well - first time I have ever shown it to anyone... I have not even started any research on it yet.

Its a family tree as well. I will let the author explain exactly what it is...

This is the first paragraph:

The exact copy of the Macon family register taken from the old family Bible now one hundred and fifty years in the family January 30th 1852 fifty two taken from the copy sent by Mrs Lucy Conway of orange? Daughter of Thomas Macon son of Col Wm Hartwell Macon who died at Mount Prospect New Kent Co. Virginia August 1843
Peyton Johnston Sr. (1852)

So this was copied (by Peyton Johnston Sr.) from a 150 year old bible in 1852! Its amazing to be reading about people being born in 1692 etc.!

Details:

Two pages 16.5" x 10.5"
Written on front & back - numbered 1-7

Here is one more extract that I thought was very endearing:

After more than twenty years very bad health, particularly the last two which was after attended with extreme pain Died my dear wife on Wednesday Morning at 1/4 past 3 oC Dec. 6th 1802. She was sixty five years old the 1st day of June last. We lived together 49 years and one Month.
W Macon
Dec. 14 1802