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RARE BOOK FROM THE HAYNES LIBRARY (RELIGION.) The Rev. Lemuel Haynes' signed copy of "A Common Place Book to the Bible or The Scriptures Sufficiency." (xiv), [1]-309, (viii) pages. 4to, original full calf, worn, rear cover detached; lacks front free end-papers. * [together with] Reverend Ashbel Parmelee's copy of "A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, in Two Parts." The latter with the simple printed bookplate of Reverend S. Parmelee. 4to, contemporary full pigskin, quite worn; text clean; paper evenly toned [together two volumes.] should be seen. London: Bettesworth and Hitch, 1738; London: Midwinter, 1738
a book from the library the noted african american Vermont minister lemuel haynes. boldly signed by haynes on the front pastedown. As an infant, Haynes (1753-1833) was abandoned by his black father and white mother. At five months, the court ordered him bound till the age of twenty-one to Deacon David Rose, a Middle Granville Massachusetts man and his wife. Haynes learned to read at an early age and developed a voracious appetite for books. He was treated as well as any of the Rose's other children, and lived with them until the age of 32. The Rev. S. Parmalee lived with Haynes for a time, and no doubt gave him this volume.
