WILES COUNTY, NC - BIBLES - Gwyn Family Bibles --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- NC Bible Records book A 1788-1877 # 400.1.1.105 Presented to the NC Archives by the NC DAR in 1936 Copied and Compiled by Mrs. E. T. Brown 1935 Old Gwyn Bible This Bible is very old but the most careful research does not reveal by whom it was published, and at what date. Under the word "Account" is stated: it is badly worn and leaves missing. "The publisher has only further to add that he has made the following impression from the Oxford Edition of 1784 by Jackson and Hanilton and has been particularly attentive to the revised and correction of the proof sheets, with the Cambridge Edition of 1668 by John Field- With the Edinburgh Edition of 1775 by Kincaid, and in all variations, with the London Edition of 1772 by Eyre and Strahan- that where there was any difference in words, or in the addition or omission of words among these, he followed that which appeared to be the most agreeable to the Hebrew of Arias Montanvus, and to the Greek of Arias Montanvus and Lensden, and always adopted some of the above mentioned English copies as his authority, except in the mode of spelling, in which he has generally followed Johnson." This is the oldest record of the Gwyn Family in North Carolina and is said to have been brought from Gloucester County, VA by Richard Gwyn and his wife Sarah Ransom, but it is my opinion that it was the property of James Gwyn Sr. a son of Richard and Sarah Gwyn. James Gwyn Sr. Father b. 3-28-1768 d. 2-20-1850 Amelia Gwyn Mother b. 7-10-1765 d. 5-25-1845 Ransom Gwyn b. 5-3-1790 d. 2-18-1872 Sarah Gwyn b. 2-3-1792 d. 10-15-1834 Thomas Gwyn b. 2-5-1794 d. 8-1-179_ Richard Gwyn b. 9-12-1796 d. 3-7-1881 Martha Gwyn 1-21-1799 d. 10-1-1804 Lenora Gwyn b. 5-3-1801 d. 5-10-1881 Amelia Gwyn b. 10-24-1808 d. 11-27-1857 Hugh Gwyn b. 5-3-1804 James Gwyn b. 11-25-1812 d. 2-11-1888 Marriages Sarah Gwyn married E. Shepherd August 23, 1808 Lenora Gwyn married Thomas Mitchell June 9, 1818 Richard Gwyn married Elizabeth Hunt April 20, 1820 James Gwyn married M. A. Lenoir May 28, 1839 The second Gwyn Bible, property of James Gwyn, Jr. Impossible to secure name or date of publication. Now owned by Joyce Gwyn MaBee, Ronda, NC. James Gwyn Jr. was born, lived and died at the ancestral home, "Green Hill" in Wilkes Co., NC. James Gwyn, Sr. b. 3-38-1768 d. 2-20-185- Married Amelia Lenoir (records of births and deaths above) James Gwyn, Jr. son of James Gwyn, Sr. and his wife Amelia Lenoir. Family Record Children of James Gwyn Jr. and his wife Mary Ann Lenoir: Sarah Lenoir Gwyn b.1-15-1841 d. 6-29-1894 Amelia Selina Gwyn b. _-20-1844 d. 12-13-1918 Julia Perkins Gwyn b. 12-1-1845 d. 10-31-1906 Mary Gwyn b. 5-10-1848 d.3-25-1932 James M. Gwyn b. 11-27-1850 d. 4-24-1913 Walter Ballard Gwyn b. 2-16-1853 d. 3-3-1911 Laura Norwood Gwyn b. 10-8-1854 d. 3-11-1915 Lenora Gwyn b. 9-22-1856 d. 1-_- 1934 William Avery Gwyn b. 9-23-1858 d. 9-23-1932 Anne Joyce Gwyn b. _-20-1861 d. Catherine Louise Gwyn b. _-24- 1863 d. 12-17-1919 [This typed copy of record of James Gwyn. Jr.has the months of birth smeared, some readable, some a guess so they are not reliable, but the other dates were clear.] ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Rose Parks 201ramp@dishmail.net ___________________________________________________________________