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In this early life, to me, Oh Lord Thy pard’ning mercy show And while my mind is early taught May I in knowledge grow.

Full Text
In this early life, to me, Oh Lord Thy pard’ning mercy show And while my mind is early taught May I in knowledge grow.
Listed on Page Number
310
Sampler Worked By
Elizabeth Hart Jarvis
Date of Sampler
before 1816
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
180
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Zeuner, Charles. The New Village Harmony: A Musical Manual for Sabbath Schools…Boston: Lincoln, Edmands and Co., 1833, p. 43.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/newvilla00zeun/page/43/mode/1up?q=%22thy+pard%27ning+mercy+show%22 This verse is the second stanza of this hymn written by Charles Zeuner, (1795-1857). Zeuner arrived in the United States in 1824 and settled in Boston. This suggests that the sampler’s date of 1816 is incorrect. The likely identity of stitcher Elizabeth Hart Jarvis further supports that the 1816 date is mistaken. Elizabeth was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut in 1826, and married Samuel Colt, in 1856 and died in Newport, RI in 1905. She was a leading citizen of Hartford, CT and Newport, RI until her death in 1905. Her two nieces, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Robinson and Elizabeth Colt Beach inherited many of her personal items. Collector Mrs. Thomas A. Lawton, was listed as the owner of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis’ sampler in Bolton and Coe, 1921, p. 180. She was born Ida Frost Robinson, daughter of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Robinson, and the great grand niece of the sampler’s creator.