Description:
Wooden box with a hinged top decorated with transfer prints (biblicial scene of virgin, child, saint, angel; seaport; 3 with parish churches in town settings; Venice; and Moorish); and lined inside with paper, felt on the base, and with a metal lock. The box descended from Emilia Stebbins (1798-1884), daughter of Asa Stebbins (1767-1844) of Deerfield, who married Abel Houghton (1790-1873) of St. Albans, Vermont, in 1817. They had a daughter, Mary Ann Houghton Sawyer (1823-1906), and a son, George Frederick. George's son, George Frederick (1842-1913) married Annie Heald (1846-1916) in 1866; they had 8 daughters, including Florence, Annie, Elsie, Ina, and Olive Averill, and 3 sons, including Roland Elmer (1869-1924). Olive Averill Houghton (1889-1956), married Safford Dunbar in 1910; their daughter, Virginia Dunbar McCormick, donated this box.
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