Handwritten note by Dorothea Dandridge Henry Winston identifying the hair and expressing her wish for her children to have it. Written with black ink on a piece of note paper.
Collection
Patrick & Dorothea Henry Collection
Transcription
Transcription
My hare cut off with my own hand to be divided among my children / D Winston
Language
English
Dimensions
Width
3-1/4 in
Length
5-1/4 in
Provenance
Notes
This note accompanied a lock of hair from Patrick Henry's widow, Dorothea Dandridge Henry (1757-1831), who married Judge Edmund Winston after Henry's death. She explains in this note that she cut off this hair with her own hand near to her death to preserve it for her children. The handwriting on this note is the same as that of Dorothea Dandridge Henry Winston's will.
At a later date it came into the possession of Margaret Henry Dabney Penick (1853-1923), a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry.
Mrs. Dabney donated the hair with its accompanying note to the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation April 4th, 1952.
