M. [Mary] Cook's Sampler
date: label: Date made
content: 1818
name: label: maker
content: Cook, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: Three block alphabets of 26 letters. Numbers to 9. Word "Marcellus" appears at end of one alphabet. Sampler worked in black silk with brown cotton used only for small period at ends of rows. Border of single row of long-armed cross at top, single row of herringbone on each side, single row of double cross at bottom. Silk thread on cotton ground. STITCHES: cross, long-armed cross, herringbone, eyelet, four-sided, crosslet, double cross. THREAD COUNT: warp 26, weft 26/in.<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Inscriptions:</B><br>
label: Description
content: "With ink and pen.<br>These marks will give.<br>The lives of men.<br>To all that live.<br>
label: Description
content: Worked by M Cook.<br>August 1818."<br>
label: Description
content: <B>Background:</B><br>
label: Description
content: Mary was born on February 22, 1806, to Daniel and Rebecca Pomeroy Cook in Skaneateles, New York. Daniel served in the Revolutionary War for three months at Saratoga in 1781, and died on August 3, 1806, in Marcellus, New York. Mary stitched her sampler while her family was living in Marcellus. She did not marry, and died on January 30, 1869. She is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. The sampler descended in the family of her brother, Ira.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Marcellus
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Rochester
label: associated place
content: United States: California, San Rafael
topic: label: depicted
content: Alphabets
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Samplers
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Louise A. Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T13201
label: catalog number
content: T13201
label: accession number
content: 250307
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton ( ground fabric material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (embroidery thread material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 21.9075 cm x 16.1925 cm