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So you Want to be a Mayflower Descendant - Rushton Family Bible - part 4

 For Generation 10, I sent the Historian these pages of the Rushton Family Bible.   Generation 10 is Phoebe Esther Rushton Spence's parents, Hannah Susan West Rushton and Thomas R. Rushton. (see Spence, Rushton, and West Pedigree charts) I wrote:   Are they legible enough?  I am not sure what to try if they are not.  I am afraid to take the plastic off them, and I am afraid to scan them, but I can give either one a try. Hannah Susan West Rushton's birthdate is written in pen as 1838.  Then someone drew a 2 over the 8 in pencil.  It is hard to see. The Bible was the most exciting find ever, and my mother and I pored over the pages for days.  When we started, we didn't know who anybody was, just about, making it so mysterious and frustrating.  What good is a family Bible if you don't know who the people are???  My grandmother Bessie didn't know that her grandmother Susan's first name was Hannah, so that was confusing at first.  She couldn't remember her grandf