QUAKER FAMILY 1829 SAMPLER w/RARE VERSE-WHITEHALL,NY-LR RARE QUAKER TITLEDVERSE-THE ORPHANS HOPE-WASHINGTON,CO Start Price USD 39.50 Current Price USD 395.00 Time Left - Bid Count 6 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Los Gatos, California See more about 'QUAKER FAMILY 1829 SAMPLER w/RARE VERSE-WHITEHALL,NY-LR' Description (7 DAY AUCTION ENDS WED.)..............This NY Quaker family sampler descended in the Daly family of Whitehall,Washington Co,New York. So many Quaker samplers from New York (see Betty Ring Vol.II,Pg 308) were worked with titled poems and poetic petitions,and especially Quaker examples from NY Female Association schools(pg 319). This wonderful 1829 Quaker schoolgirl sampler (appx.17x21) is signed "Worked By Catharine Daly Aged 10 Years 1829" and includes the rare poem by Emma Cowee titled;"THE ORPHAN'S HOPE";which encompasses the Quaker ideology of compassion for the underprivileged and focuses on hope;"While to the grave our parents are born,around there(their) cold remains,How all our tender passions mourn,And each fond heart complains,But down to earth alas in vain,We bend our weeping eyes,Ah let us leave these seats of pain,And upwards learn to rise,Hope cheerful smiles amid the gloom,And beams its healing ray,And guides us from the darksome tomb,To realms of endless day,Then let our hearts repine no more,That earthly comforts die,But lasting happiness implore,And ask it beyond the sky". Catharine worked a lush floral border and included a barber pole vine just below her verse...a motif traditional on NY Quaker samplers. Conserved in a striking ebony molded frame on acid free board,the sampler is in very fine condition with only minor imperfections and full integrity of the silkwork.The verse is the focal point,and has strong contrast,quite legible against the linen ground. Catharine was born 1818 in Whitehall,Washington, County,NY....just across the border from Vermont;and married Lyman Rich there in 1839.Whitehall was originally the settlement of Skenesborough New York in 1773;and part of then Charlotte County right on the Vermont border.In 1777 Vermont claimed independence from NY,and in 1781 claimed the areas of Albany and Charlotte County.But those claim were abandoned by Vermont in 1782,and by 1784 Charlotte Co. was changed to Washington County,though it is smaller today. The original family settler of Skenesborogh,James Daly,is part of the early records back to the 1760s. With a reserve under 400,this Quaker titled-verse sampler is affordable for the Quaker collector on a budget....and for those who collect samplers with unusual schoolgirl poems. Place a Bid!