- Full Text
- When I am dead and worms me eat
here you shall se my name complete
- Listed on Page Number
- 285
- Sampler Worked By
- Abigail Whiting
- Date of Sampler
- 1787
- Place Sampler Made
- Wrentham, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 86
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Collins, Ann S., 1801, n.p., pg. 141.
The first line is drawn from a New England epitaph, possibly from a now unknown source of epitaphs, or possibly common knowledge. The second line a common device of signing one’s name to one’s sampler in a rhyme.