1791 Witherspoon Bible

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The Witherspoon Bible was prepared for publication by John Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the president of Princeton University. Witherspoon refused to have his name printed in the Bible, asserting that it was not his Bible but God's Bible. And despite the fact that it is a King James Version, he did not allow its connection to King James to be mentioned on the title page. He argued that the United States had just fought a war to win its independence from a king and should not allow its Bible to be seen as deriving its authority from a king. It is considered the first family Bible in America.

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