
Jemima Morrill
Needlework Sampler
Canterbury, New Hampshire, dated 1795
Jemima worked this classic early Canterbury, NH sampler at age 11 ("in the twelfth year of her age").
This important group of New Hampshire samplers share unique design elements that span a period of about 25 years
starting in the mid 1780's. Jemima's sampler is interesting in that some design elements drawn on linen were not
stitched.
Jemima Morrill (1784-1856 was the second of four children born to Masten Morrill (1751-1831) and his first wife
Comfort Weeks (1756-1795). On June 14, 1810 she married David Clough (b1783). David's father was a joiner and
he acquired a large farm that he divided among his three sons. David and Jemima had six children between 1811
and 1823, but the three eldest died of the same illness on Sept. 28, 1817. Their fourth child was born April 9.
1818.
Silk on linen; 16¾ x 16? inches sight.
Provenance:
Foulke Collection
Stephen and Carol Huber, East Lyme, CT
Joan Stephens, Potomac, Maryland
Sotheby's, New York, The Joan Stephens Collection, January 1997.
Sotheby's, New York, Wolf Family Collection April 2023
Stephen and Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, CT
Sansoucy Collection
Literature:
Stephen and Carol Huber, 1992 Sampler Engagement Calendar, pg23
Exhibited:
Hanover, New Hampshire, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury
Region of New Hampshire, March 10-13, 1990, p. 18, illustrated.
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