Description:
White cotton mulle camisole embroidered in matching cotton. The garment, which secures to the wearer at the neckline using a gathering string or tape, is wide and unfitted. It would have been slipped on over the wearer's head, and acted as a buffer between the body and the corset. The camisole came from 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).
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