Bible: Bunn Family Bible, 1770's 1940's: Pennington, Mercer Co, NJ Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Matt Ainslie . applegate@erols.com USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________ From the "Family Record" pages in the middle of the bible: First Page (Marriages): Jonathan Bunn sen'r was married to Mary Shinn June 1776 Jonathan Bunn son of the aforesaid was married to Ann Conlon Dec. 12th 1818 Joshua Bunn was married to Frances Hoff January 1st 1809 Second Page (Births) Jonathan Bunn was born January 29th, 1744 Mary S. Bunn, wife of the aforesaid was born May 22nd 1757 ----------- The following is a record of the Children of the above Jonathan & Mary Bunn ----------- William Bunn born January 3rd 1778 Lydia Bunn was born April 27th 1779 Lydia Bunn (the second) was born September 27th 1781 Joshua Bunn was born September 17th, 1783 Nathaniel Bunn was born December 14th, 1785 Mary Bunn was born February 14th, 1788 Sarah Bunn was born June 20th, 1790 Jonathan Bunn was born November 18th, 1792 Deborah Bunn was born January 23rd, 1796 Joseph Bunn was born January 25th, 1798 Nathaniel Bunn (the second) was born March 13th, 1800 -------------- Children of Jonathan and Ann Bunn Mary Ann Bunn was born February 5th 1821 Elizabeth H. Bunn was born Oct. 28th, 1821 Jonathan Shinn Bunn was born March 21st 1823 (next page first column is of births and continues the above; 2nd column is deaths) Joseph Welling Bunn, son of Nathaniel Bunn and Mary Ann his wife, departed this life June 30th 1825 (for some reason this is at the top of the Births column) ----------- Children of Jonathan and Ann Bunn ----------- Sarah Fidler Bunn was born Dec. 21st 1824 Joseph H. Bunn was born December 25th 1826 Charles W. Bunn was born Feb. 12th, 1829 Samuel Fidler Bunn was born June 13th 1831 Catharine Bunn was born Jan'y 31st 1834 Deborah B. Bunn was born January 18th 1836 Manning F. Bunn was born October 17th 1839 George S. Bunn was born May 10th 1844 (then in the Deaths column) William S. Bunn departed this life February 26th, 1778 Lydia Bunn departed this life October 17th 1780 Nathaniel Bunn departed this life March 17th 1787 ------------- Joseph Hoff Bunn departed this life May 16th 1848 aged 21 years 4 months 22 days Catharine Bunn departed this life March 14th 1874 aged 40 years 1 month & 14 days (last page of the Family Record) Jonathan Bunn Sen'r Departed this life in the year of our Lord (about midnight) eighteen hundred & fifteen January 3rd aged seventy years eleven months and 3 days. ------------- Mary Bunn Sen'r wife of the aforesaid departed this life A.D. Nov. 12th 1834 aged 77 years 6 mo. & 10 days ------------- Jonathan Bunn departed this life June 17th 1870 aged 77 years 6 months & 29 days ------------ Ann Bunn wife of Jonathan Bunn departed this life July 11th 1884 aged 88 years 9 months & 1 day ------------- Josph (that's exactly as it appears) Bunn Senior departed this life July 13th 1816 aged 65 years 8 months 12 days ------------ Charles Wesley Bunn departed this life July 21st 1895 aged 66 years 5 month & 9 days. Then there's an inventory of great interest, slipped in at the end of the Family Record: TLath (that's what it looks like) shear of household & Kitchen furniture that was left to Mary Bunn the wife of Jonathan Bunn Sen'r Her choise bequith in his Last will & Testament 8 rush botom chairs $3.96 4 winsor chairs $5.00 1 breakfast table $5.33 (crossed out are: 1 desk & bookcase $25 1 bed & curtin & bedstd $55 1 tea stand $4) 1 bras candlestick $1.00 1 lot of crockeware $9.14 1 lookingglass $6.00 1 bead & beding & beadstd $35.00 1 trundle bed & bedding and Bedstd $10.00 1 case & bottles $1.00 1 pair of andirons & shovel & tongs $2.00 1 round table $2.00 1 walnut table for the kitchin $0.60 1 case of drawrs $24.00 1 hackle $2.00 1 half of the knives and forks $1.50 1 half of the plates and earthen ware on the drawer $3.00 1 iron pot $1.25 1 tramel $1.50 2 smothing irons $0.00 1 milk pail $0.50 2 Iron pots $0.80 1 Tea letel (??) $2.00 1 bras Little (??) & bake iron $1.00 1 candle stick $0.25 2 Tucks (??) & sundries $3.00 1 geese feather bed & beding & bedsted $18.00 1 ditto $18.00 1 blanket $4.00 2 bead quilts $4.00 5 sheats $5.00 1 big weal & little wal (??) $2.00 The Sundries up Stairs $1.75 --------- $175.19 To 1 chest $0.75 3 sheats $4.65 9 pair of Pillow (a guess) Caces $4.62 1 Half of the Tubs and the (Frys?) & sundrys in the sellar $1.44 (then a large signature) Mary Bunn then: The things I lent Lydia is no account to be made of them _________________________________________ From pages in the front of the Bible: BIRTHS Bunn, Jonathan November 18, 1792 Conlon, Ann October 10, 1795 Scudder, Wm. H. August 31, 1823 Stout, Mary June 29, 1831 Scudder, Sarah E. December 7, 1849 Scudder, Amy E. January 14, 1851 Scudder, Ella M. April 26, 1854 Scudder, Susie A. November 19, 1860 Bunn, Edward E. May 12, 1874 Bunn, Sarah A. November 25, 1875 Bunn, Mary G. December 8, 1876 Bunn, Chas. T. June 16, 1882 Bunn, Joseph D. October 13, 1886 Guenther, Henry E. September 3, 1868 Sked, John H. June 5, 1876 Pierson, Annie M. December 7, 1877 Guenther, Emma G November 4, 1894 Guenther, George B. August 8 (or 5) 1896 Sked, Hazel A. July 12, 1901 Snedeker, Estella December 28, 1886 Bunn, Marion S. March 24, 1916 Bunn, Anna Mae July 30, 1911 Bunn, Mary E. October 17, 1914 Guenther, Emma S. Nov. 4 1894 Guenther, George B. Aug. 8 1896 Hunt, Lester C. 1911 Errickson, C. Emmett October 9, 1937 Errickson, Mary Bernice December 19, 1941 DEATHS Scudder, Mary November 12, 1883 Bunn, Lucilla Lynn July 3, 1887 Fisher, John November 6, 1892 Van Dyke, Enoch July 1, 1894 Bunn, Chas. W. July 21, 1895 Van Dyke, Elizabeth February 10, 1897 Bunn, Mary A. January 17, 1899 Bunn, Jonathan S. May 20, 1899 Bunn, Samuel F. November 15, 1899 Bunn, Clara E. June 10, 1903 Scudder, Wm. H. July 11, 1905 Bunn, Pauline O. July 30, 1906 Titus, Sarah F. January 10, 1908 Smith, Sarah E. December 4, 1913 Bunn, Manning F. October 9, 1914 Bunn, George S. April 14, 1915 Bunn, Amy E. Nov. 7 1928 Titus, Chas. B. July 1 1930 Emmett E. Bunn May 3, 1942 MARRIAGES Wm. H. Scudder and Mary Stout January 3, 1849 Enoch D. Van Dyke and Elizabeth Bunn September 17, 1845 Azariah Titus and Sarah F. Bunn September 17, 1846 John Fisher and Deborah B. Bunn October 21, 1858 Jonathan S. Bunn and Mary Wiggins May 31, 1859 Manning F. Bunn and Pauline O. Allen April 16, 1863 Chas. W. Bunn and Lucilla Lynn July 12, 1871 George S. Bunn and Amy E. Scudder December 10, 1873 Samuel F. Bunn and Ann Van Dyke April 4, 1888 Louis M. Smith and Sarah E. Scudder October 22, 1872 Jonathan B. Van Dyke and Ella M. Scudder December 10, 1879 John W. Hoppock(?) and Susie A. Scudder December 30, 1884 Henry E. Guenther and Sarah A. Bunn May 18, 1894 John H. Sked and Mary G. Bunn September 1, 1897 Edward E. Bunn and Annie M. Pierson August 19, 1896 Charles T. Bunn and Clara E. Reed January 28, 1903 Charles T. Bunn and Minnie M. Mechesney March 6, 1907 Joseph D. Bunn and Stella E. Snedeker February 10, 1909 Charles (Q. or L) Hunt and Emma G. Guenther (no date given) George B. Guenther and Alma Hixon July 3, 1934 Job W. Moyer and Marion S. Bunn December 8, 1934 Carl T. Errickson and Mary E. Bunn Nov.(?) 3, 1934 Alex Mason and Hazel A. Sked (no date given) Linsey de Valliere and Hazel A. Sked October 8, 1934 and on the final sheet: Born to William H. Mathews and Blanche Pierson Blanche Pauline Mathews, born February 5, 1890 Belle Burnine(?) Mathews, born January 23, 1892 Born to Glen Pierson and Jennie H. Bird Stanley B. Pierson, born September 16, 1898, married October 11, 1921 to Mildred Anderson Born to Thomas R. Pierson and Annie Guenther: Lyon H. Pierson December 3, 1894 Bertha M. Pierson February 23, 1897 Nettie Pierson Florence Pierson Harry B. Pierson Born to Edward Emmett Bunn & Annie M. Pierson Mary E Bunn, married Nov. 3, 1934, Carl T. Errickson, born to them is C. Emmett Errickson Oct. 9, 193_ (page is fraying at this end with losses) and Bernice Mary Errickson and on the other side Grandparents Thomas R. Pierson, born December 8, 1815, married December 6, 1838 (to below), died August 5, 1891 Mary Ann Quick, born August 28, 1920, died November 29, 1893 Benjamin M. Woodward, b. October 2, 1795, married March 23, 1820, died May 30, 1881 Margaret Roberts, b. September 1, 1799, married to above, died May 16, 1871 PARENTS James Livingston Pierson, born December 9, 1843, married March 22, 1865, died August 25, 1898 Annie E. Woodward, born December 23, 1839, married to above, died August 24, 1916 Children (including the writer, presumably) Thomas R. Pierson, b. September 8, 1866, married November 14, 1893 to Annie Genther(?), d.January 10, 1940 Maggie W. Pierson, born June 3, 1868, died June 3, 1868 Blanche Pierson, b. July 17, 1867, married May 16, 18__ to Wm. H. Mathews, July, Frank J. Johnson. Oliver Pierson, February 18, 1871 died February 20, 1871 Glen H. Pierson, b. May 25, 1872, married September 12, 1895 to Jennie H. Bird, (he d."August", she 4-10-1940) _______ S. Pierson, b. April 2, 1875, died December 28, 1903 ____nie M. Pierson, b. December 7, 1877, married August 19, 1896 to Emmett E. Bunn, d. May ?, 1941 (the blanks are from paper loss; the ? after May is in the original paper.