Description:
Linen sheet with the intials "P W 2," which was said to have been made by the the donor's great grandmother around 1811, the wife of George Edwards, the son of Jonathan Edwards. It is still unclear who was George Edwards since Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801), the son of the well-known Reverand Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) of Northampton, did not have son named Charles with his first wife, Mary Porter Edwards (1748-1782) who married in 1770. Jonathan Edwards married again to Mary Sabin (1758-1823 of New Haven, Connecticut, but no children have yet been identified. There is a listing in the Northampton death records for two children of George Edwards who died in 1816 and 1817. The sheet is composed of two selvage widths of bleached linen seamed in the center using an overcast or whip stitch.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Embroidery; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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