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Needlework Sampler, "Wrought by Indiana Fitch/Aged 12 years/August 1- 1813," Groton, Massachusetts, the sampler stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with rows of alphabets over a house and a verse, surrounded by a geometric flowering vine, (toning, fading), 20 x 20 1/2 in. , in a later molded wood frame. Provenance: Descended through the family of the maker's husband, Artemas Hemenway. Indiana Fitch was born May 24, 1801, in Groton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Zachariah Fitch and Amelia Blood. She married Artemas Hemenway on December 6, 1821 and resided in Pepperell, Massachusetts. Together they had six children, one of whom, Eliza Hemenway, stitched the sampler in lot 481.


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2011-03-06

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