Description:
Embroidered linen and silk white organza gown or dress which came from the descendents of Charles Barnard (1781-1869) of Boston and Deerfield. The son of Samuel Barnard (1746-1819) and Abigail Upham Barnard (1745/46-1826) of Deerfield, Charles Barnard moved to Boston where he married his first wife, Sarah [MIddleton] Bent (b.c.1786- d. after 1821) of Milton, Massachusetts, in 1805/6. Charles Barnard became a very successful commission merchant in the South American trade in partnership with Israel Munson (1767-1844), and the family belonged to The Manifesto Church in Brattle Square. They also had a house in Milton, which is now known as the Upton House of Milton Academy. After the death of his first wife, Charles married Eleanor Walker of Boston in 1839. The donor John Hedrick, who donated other Barnard family pieces in the HD collection, is a descendent of Charles Barnard through Charles and Sarah's daughter, Anne Middleton Barnard (1821-1878) who married William Augusta Davis (1819-1898) of Winchester, Virginia. Ann and William's daughter, Susan Lyman Davis (1844-1927), married Daniel Burr Conrad (1831-1898) in 1871, and their daughter Eleanor Barnard Conrad (1883-1950) married Adam Clarke Carson (1869-1941) in 1907. Eleanor and Adam's daughter Susan Davis Carson (1909-1987) married John Sherman Hedrick (1902-1955); their son is the donor, John Adam Hedrick (b.1934). This dress, which may date to the 1930s, could have been worn by Susan Davis Carson.
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