Description:
Needlework sampler done in silk embroidery in blue on an unbleached, plain-weave linen ground, which has the inscription, "MARY HINDSALE of GR / EENFIELD WAS BORN MAY / 9th 1782" and six rows of the alphabet and the numbers 1-0 separated by a single line of stitching. Mary Hinsdale (b.1782) was the daughter of Samuel Hinsdale (1741-1825) of Greenfield who married Mary Stebbins (1749-1830), the daughter of Benjamin Stebbins of Belchertown, Massachusetts, in 1772; their "High Case of Draws" is in PVMA's Memorial Hall. In 1798, Mary Hinsdale married Samuel Allen (b.1781), the son of Ebenezer Allen (b.1754) of Greenfield who moved to Waterbury, Vermont, after 1800. Samuel moved from Greenfield to Chelsea, Vermont. According to handwritten notes by Sarah Weeks Foss (see her photograph and handwritten notes in data field), the sampler descended to Mary and Samuel's daughter, Pamelia Allen (1813-1882) who married Benjamin Foss in 1837 (see her sampler, HD 76.017), and then to their son Henry Dow Foss (1843-1906) who married Sarah Weeks (1851-1886) in 1869. Both Henry and Sarah Foss died in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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