Description:
White cotton sleeveless christening dress, which descended in the Stebbins family of Deerfield. There a note in the file from Florence Stebbins Shaw (Mrs. Albert E. Shaw) of Webster, Massachusetts: "The dress on top was first worn by my Uncle William H. Stebbins when he was christened. He was born in 1849. Then by my father Charles H. Stebbins, born Jan. 24 1859 - then by my brother Harold, my brother Leo, myself, my children & by John Pearson Shaw in 1947. Florence S. Shaw." William Herbert Stebbins (b.1849) was the older of the two sons of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield, and grandson of Zebina Stebbins (1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deerfield. The donor's father and William's younger brother, Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880. They had three children: Harold Childs Stebbins (1883-1890), Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966), and Leo Crawford Stebbins (1892-?). The dress descended to Florence Copeland Stebbins who married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts.
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