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Adaline Marsh, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1821
Adaline Marsh informs us that she finished this sampler on September 18, 1821 when she was 13 years of age. She also names the town of Sutton as being her dwelling place.  Sutton is a gorgeous rural town, about 34 square miles in size, located in Central Massachusetts. It is about 15 minutes from Worcester and 1 hour from Boston. It is a rural town, with mostly wooded hills, dairy farms, horse farms, and a gazebo on the town green.

Adaline s sampler is comprised of three alphabets, a wonderful stately home flanked by six imaginatively worked trees and the admonition to "Hope thou in the Lord".  Adaline, born June 4, 1808 was the youngest of ten children born to Stephen Marsh and Tamar Sibley. She married Marble Putnam on August 14, 1834 and between them had four children, all but one who died very young, not living much past 1-1/2 years. Marble was for years the leading wholesale dealer in paints and oils in Worcester having also a branch of his business in Boston. He died of consumption on Dec. 8, 1848 at age 40. After his death Adaline went on to live in Worcester with her older sister, who was also a widow, until her death on December 30, 1860. The entire family is buried in Sutton, Massachusetts in the Pidgeon Hill Cemetery.

Both the Marshes and the Putnam s were longtime residents of Sutton and Adaline Marsh was a direct descendant of Benjamin Marsh who was one of the first three families to settle Sutton in 1716-1717, spending the first winter there. The Putnam s also figured prominently in the settlement of the town, but not quite as early. In fact General Rufus Putnam s likeness is on the Sutton Town Seal. He was a direct ancestor of Marble, Adaline s husband, and instrumental in opening up Ohio to settlement from the east. Both families roots go deep into Sutton history. It is not often that we find a sampler with such historic ties to a particular area.

The sampler is in excellent condition, with lustrous silks worked onto a linen ground. It is conservation mounted into a figured maple frame with an ebony bead and protected with TruVue glass.  Sight Size is 15-1/4 long x 13" high.

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