This auction is for the original antique, early Victorian 1844 Family Bible that belonged to the venerable DeRevere / VanTassel family of Sleepy Hollow (Tarrytown), New York for over one hundred fifty years, the latter immortalized by Washington Irving; with geneological entries recording scores of marriages, births & deaths, some with lesser known surnames; the earliest of the former being: Abraham De Revere as born March 6th, 1797 and the latest, under deaths, being: Fannetta Geneviere Purdy March 8th 1927. Many of these entries now lie in the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow, opposite the "Headless Horseman Bridge" on modern route 9, formerly The Old Albany Post Road, an extention of New York's Broadway.