Description:
English red and white cotton or "toile" coverlet with a 3/4" border on all four sides, three sides of which are made of one print and the fourth made of a different print, and a cotton lining. The red copperplate design, a portion of which Florence Montgomery noted in 1970 was owned by the textile printers G. P. and J. Baker Ltd., depicts two peacocks - a male and hen with chicks, flying and perched birds, tall sunflower, tall scrolling grape vines, and other foliage. The print repeat is 37 1/4" x 38 1/2"; the curtain is pieced to show the whole design. These bed furnishings (96.030.1-.12) are associated with the Hedges and Huntting families, and Rev. Samuel Buell (1716-1798), all of East Hampton, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island. Rev. Dr. Samuel Buell was born in Coventry, Connecticut, and moved to East Hampton, New York. In 1746, Rev. Buell married Jerusha Meacham (1721-1759), the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Meacham of Coventry, Connecticut, and Esther Williams (1691-1751) who was the daughter of the Rev. John Williams (1664-1729) of Deerfield, author of "The Redeemed Captive." Esther Williams was one of those captured in the Indian raid on Deerfield in 1704, taken to Quebec, and later redeemed. Rev. Buell married his second wife, Mary Mulford (1746-1783) of East Hampton, around 1767, and his third, Mary Miller (1766-1844), in 1788. In 1746, Rev. Buel succeeded the Rev. Nathaniel Huntting (1675-1753), who served as the second minister of The East Hampton Church for 49 years, as the third minister of the chuch, which later became the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. Nathaniel and his wife Mary Huntting (1679-1733) were given a house by the the town which "by unanimous vote: Doe freely give and grant unto him . . . and his heirs . . . forever." This house was operated after his death by the Huntting family as "a common publick house," as it was derisively called, into the 20th century. William Hedges was a member of one of the original 34 Puritan families who settled in East Hampton in 1648 whose descendents remained in the area.
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