Betsey Colcord's Sampler
date: label: date made
content: 1791
name: label: maker
content: Colcord, Betsey Towle
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Betsey T. Colcord, is stitched in cross stitch with silk embroidery thread on a cotton ground with a thread count of warp 40, weft 44/ in. A paper label was attached to the sampler that read: “Betsey T. Colcord / July 3, 1812 / February 13,1903 / Vergennes, Vermont.” Betsey Towle Colcord was born July 3, 1812 to Tristum Coffin and Ann R. Towle Colcord in Franklin, Vermont. She married on 13 February 1836, Enoch Pomery (1802 - 1875). They had four children - Candace Pease (1837 - 1915), George Enoch (1840 - ), Mary Ann (1844 - ), and Luna Lovice (1846 - 1870). She died February 13, 1903.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388924
label: catalog number
content: E388924.000
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 3/8 in x 12 in; 33.9725 cm x 30.48 cm