The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-06-13
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9enn. Patient hands fashioned this
dainty bead reticule, and this hundred
year-old sampler, an heirloom in the
FAMILY OF James McSherry of Titles
foWn. This old clock was brought from
ayr, Scotland, 200 years ago, and has
licked ever since in Forest County. And
IHls IS the history of the quaint old piece
ot heedlework. my father, Melchior
,'ieaI writes Dorothy Ogden to her
about the Sabbath. He could eat no din
1 Mer II ne forgot the text at church. He
1Gnought III a sin to look out or go out,
consequently, l shut myself in my room
sunday afternoon and worked this
needlework."
And this old glove, still Immediately
oIeah' though the white is yellowed by
II belongs to Thomas Roberts of
l Allauelphla, and its romance, as read on
me card, is as follows: Worn by six
generauons OF sons at their weddings"
II Is probably waiting to be worn by the
seventh.
Jeweled vinaigrette and silver snuff
Dox lie alongside the old 'Breeches"
pipe, on whose title page is written the
1 Ibo owners namc-"William Hartman
thomas, Gray's lane, PHILADELPHIA" 1t
was once owned by Colonel James
Coulter, Lord High Sheriff of the
IroVlnce of Pennsylvania"
New Jersey shows the ivory-handled
sword worn by Major Elisha Walton.
Flrst Major of the First Regiment of New
Jersey troops, at the battle of Monmouth,
alton was the great-grandfather of ohm
Z. L HE OF PHILADELPHIA But Jersey dis
plays mostly old chinaware and silver
ware, along with Pennsylvania. There
IS an old Delft tankard of 1853, highly
nowered, and another, owned by a Salem
~. J.) revolutionary soldier, depicting a
lat blbber, the rim of whose hat makes
the I'D, and who is clad in blue coat
green vest, and pumpkin olored knick-
eroockers. Ranged all along, old Delft
plate, old blue plate, 125-year-old tea
spoons, salt-cellars used by Washington
Wnen he spilled salt with Lafayette, an
OLD housewife and worsted purse, a punch
stralner and soup ladle, heirlooms of the
Biddle family, and such relics galore.
An old Ulster County Gazette" in
mourning. contains a poems "On the
Death OF George Washington by a
Young Lady"
Little Delaware shows a precious relic
IN framed lock of Washington's hair
1t reveals the secret that under the pow
dered wig of State his own locks showed
bright auburn. Mad Anthony WAYNE
Is also disclosed here as the beau and not
as the General. This cup and saucer he
presented in courtly fashion TO Mary
' ming, Gll6 Revolutionary belle. Here.
too, is miniature of Mrs. Colds borough,
one of the ladies of the Meschianza,
painted on ring of Major Andre. And
this white velvet pincushion of blossom
colored SILK, the first silk ever made in
this country, was worn by Catharine
Deshler, in l775, at her wedding with
Robert Roberts of the First Troop of
Philadelphia.
From M1ddletown comes q rare old
altar cloth, with the initials A. r. ANNA
Regina), worked by Queen Anne herself
in l704 for the st. AIMS Church. Beside
1t is an old pewter communion service
ana an old china coffee pot, that belonged
to "Old Parson" Leydenham Thorne,
who laid out the town of Milford
Mingled with documents of John Penn
and Lord Baltimore lies patent under
the Duke of York, and near by sill
houette of Joseph Tatnall, "the Quake
Patriot" who ground wheat for the
starving troops at Valley Forge, in the
face of the British army. There is a pho
tograph OF his house, where Washington,
Wayne and Lafayette held their councils,
and another of old Belmont Hall. the
Revolutionary residence of Governor
Thomas Collins, who was President.
Captain, General and COMMANDMENT
Chief Of Delaware. Here, too, is the
china from which Delaware's first Gov
ernor, John Mckinley, drank before he
was taken prisoner at Philadelphia, and
the spoon mOlds used by Ebenezer Choke.
the patriot who persisted on the British
prison ship Jersey.