This I did to let you see / what care my parents took of me.

Bolton & Co. Verse:
41
Full Text
This I did to let you see / what care my parents took of me.
Listed on Page Number
260
Sampler Worked By
Dorothy Jans
Date of Sampler
1752
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
56
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)/”The Diary of Samuel Sewall”/Boston,MA/late 1600’s
Notes
This verse was written in Sewall’s personal diary. Sewall was a Judge in the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, MA. The next lines of the verse, which do not appear on the sampler, are: "When I was young and sickly too And none but God and they could do." Also used by: p. 64, Sally Miller, 1783, Middletown (Conn) v.41 (var) p.76, Hannah Spooner, 1785 v.41 (var) p.83, Elizabeth Van Buren, 1785 NY v.41 (var) p.39, Eliza Cowdrey, 1787 v.41 p.167, Jane Hamil, 1802 v. 41(var) p.148, Caroline Denny, 1814 Leicester (Mass) v.41 (var) p.147, Mara Ann Davis, 1816 Cumberland County NJ v.41 (var) p.147, Ruth Davis, 1817 Cumberland (NJ) v.41(var) p.164, Eliza Goodman, 1821 v. 41 (var) p.143, 1822, Phebe Esther Copp v. 41 p.185, 1823,Knapp,Julia, 41 (var)