Handkerchief

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Handkerchief

Entry/Object ID

CW 801

Description

Handkerchief. Small off-white linen handkerchief with cross stitch initials: "H.P." and "1786." Made for Hannah Paxson (1766-1852) who married Jesse Betts (1760-1860) in Bucks County, 1787. Handkerchief date: 1786. Quaker. Fair condition; one-inch tear and several small slits. The donor, Emily Smyth Cooper (Johnson), a Betts descendant, was the daughter of Lucy Smyth and Howard M. Cooper of Camden New Jersey at her marriage to James Johnson of Philadelphia May 8, 1915. Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Label/Inscription/Signature

Notes

Small fabric piece with cross stitch initials: "H.P." and "1786."

Provenance

Notes

Made for Hannah Paxson (1766-1852) who married Jesse Betts (1760-) in Bucks County, 1787. Condition not given. Jesse Betts and his family moved in 1812 from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware where he was a builder and contractor. He built the Friends Meeting House at the corner of Fourth and West Streets, Wilmington. (Source: Encyclopedia of Biography: ttps://books.google.com/books)