Description:
Unmounted, unframed watercolor sketch of the mill drain in shades of greens and grey-browns, which is inscribed in pencil on the reverse: "This is the bridge over the mill drain that / Uncle Leo pushed your mother off of into the mill / drain when she was a girl. She does not / remember who painted this or the companion picture / some one staying at the house in Deerfield / A.E. Shaw / Aug 20 1944 / Mill & Bars'." Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966) married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885), who was Benjamin Zabina Stebbins' brother, and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins 1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deerfield.
Subjects:
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