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Sampler Archive ID: SA000237
Maker: Unknown
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The gift of Sarah Wistar
 to her great Neice
 Catharine Wistar
         1789
 Worked in the Year
        1752.
Sarah Wistar was the daughter of the immigrant Caspar Wistar & Catharine Jansen. She was born in 1738 & died unmarried in 181?. Her great niece Catharine Wistar was the daughter of Richard Wistar & Sarah Morris. She was born in 1783 & died unmarried in 1822. (See David's Genealogy of the Wistar Family ps,7-8) 
This belongs to Fanny Wistar Scott daughter of Richard Wistar & Hannah Owen Lewis March 8th 1898  
see David Gen.of Wistar Family p.12
given to her only daughter Hannah Lewis Scott March 14, 1898
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Object History

Previous Owners:

Name: Henry Francis du Pont
Relation to maker: none

Conservation:
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Exhibitions: Title: Samplers: Skills and Sentiments
Host: University Hospital Antiques Show
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Date: Apr. 23, 1979 – Apr. 28, 1979

Literature:

Author(s): Susan Burrows Swan
Title: Plain & Fancy: American Women and their Needlework, 1650-1850
Publication/Publisher: Curious Works Press
Date: 1995

Author(s): Susan Burrows Swan
Title: Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
Publication/Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Date: 1977

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Publication/Publisher: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 68
Date: 1944

Author(s): Thomas Allen Glenn
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Publication/Publisher: The Magazine Antiques
Date: Sep. 1927

Author(s): Thomas Allen Glenn
Title: Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them: With Genealogies of the Various Families Mentioned
Publication/Publisher: Philadelphia: H.T. Coates & Co.
Date: 1900

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