- 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)