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Maker(s):Hawks, Mercy
Culture:American (1785-1854)
Title:coverlet
Date Made:ca. 1830
Type:Bedding
Materials:textile: wool, linen
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Deerfield
Measurements:overall: 94 1/4 in x 106 in; 239.395 cm x 269.24 cm
Accession Number:  HD F.445
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Overshot woven, wool and linen coverlet done in a summer/winter weave in blue and pink wool and white linen, which was made by Mercy Hawks (1785-1854), the daughter of Paul Hawks (1736-1814) of Wapping and Lois Wait (d.1810) of Hatfield, Massachusetts, who married Erastus Childs (1782-1858), a shoemaker and farmer in Wapping, in 1810. The coverlet descended in the Childs family to Virginia Childs Margola, the daughter of Allen Childs, from who the Flynts obtained it.

Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; Wool

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