Harriet Brigg's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1827
name: label: maker
content: Briggs, Harriet Thatcher
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Harriet Briggs, dating to 1827, is stitched with silk embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 23, weft 23/in. The stitches used are cross, eyelet, Algerian Eye, long-armed cross, four-sided, reverse petit point, queen, and single feather. The inscription is: “Harriet Briggs / Sampler Aged 10 Years / Lee 1827.” Harriet Thatcher Briggs was born December 15, 1816, in Lee, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts to Joshua and Abigail Thatcher Briggs. She married May 5, 1840, Enoch Comstock (1815 – 1875). They had three children. Ella , Gertrude S., and Charles Gilbert . All their children were born in Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois. She died August 14, 1884, in Illinois.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Roger Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11677
label: catalog number
content: T11677.000
label: accession number
content: 219034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 7/8 in x 10 7/8 in; 30.1625 cm x 27.6225 cm