Description:
Needlework sampler done in silk embroidery on unbleaced, plain-woven linen with the inscription, "Wrought by Mary Eastm. / an in the 11th year of her age. / Randolph, sept. 21, 1827" flanked by the verse, "Oh God Protect my tender youth / and guide me in the Path of truth / And when I quit this thorny maze / May I ascend to sing thy praise." Mary Eastman (b.1816) was the daughter of Tilton Eastman (1773-1842), who was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1796, and married Experience Smith in 1802 in Plainfield, New Hampshire. They lived in Randolph, Vermont, where he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church at Randolph Center in 1801 and served until 1830. The Eastman family history refers to Mary and her sister Eunice continuing to live in their parents' house after Tilton Eastman's death in 1842 until their own deaths. The sampler has six rows of the alphabet in upper and lower case and script, the numbers 1-10; 2 two-story houses, one with a white picket fence, flanked by trees, flying birds, and large flower basket along the bottom; and a three-sided diamond-shaped border design..
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