Description:
Leather-bound book titled, "The Saracen, or Matilda and Malek Adhel", inscribed in ink, "Edward Russell Deerfield". The book, which was purchased at the Allen family auction in Olean, NY, July 1982, descended through the Allen-Stebbins family (see file). The book came to the three Allen sisters - Ruth, Mary and Agnes - of Olean, NY, through the family of their father, Edmund Eliel Allen (1855-1939) of Deerfield, who married Harriett Burnett (1859-1947) of Springfield, Mass, and moved first to Buffalo and then Olean around 1888. His parents were Josiah (b. 1814) of Wapping and Mary Stebbins Allen (b. 1819), daughter of Dennis Stebbins (1778-1842) of Deerfield, who married in 1853. Edward Russell (1805-1851) married, Leanora A. Stebbins (b. 1807), Mary Stebbins Allen's sister, in 1831.
Subjects:
Leather; Linen Link to share this object record:
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