- Full Text
- While hostile foes our coasts invade,
While innocence is all our pride,
In all the pomp of war arrayed,
And virtue is our only Guide
Americans be not dismayed,
Women would scorn to be defyd
Nor fear the Sword or Gun.
if led by Washington.
- Listed on Page Number
- 255
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth "Betsy" Bucklin
- Date of Sampler
- 1781
- Place Sampler Made
- Providence, RI
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 35
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Sampler stitched at age 13, probably at the Miss L. Balch School.
Acquired 2008 by the National Museum of American History in Washington DC.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/national-museum-american-history-acquires-18th-century-sampler