June 27, 2025: Premier Americana: Day Two
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WATERVILLE, KENNEBEC CO., MAINE NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top row featuring a trefoil floral vine band flanked by spade or tree-like motifs, below with eight-and-one-fourth alphabet and numeral rows, followed by a signature of "Abigail Cool born feb 6th 1796 / Abigail Cool is my name & with my needle I / Wrought the same for I was by my Parents / Taught not to spend my time for naught 1810", all rows segmented by horizontal bands of linear stitching and encompassed by a sawtooth border. Housed under glass in a modern frame. Dated 1810. 13 7/8" SQ sight, 16" SQ OA.
Literature: For an 1811 sampler by Elethea Soule of Waterville, ME, see M. Finkel & Daughter, Samplings: XLIII, p. 26, that example having similar trefoil floral vine band at the top, similar alphabet rows, and the same sawtooth border.
Catalogue Note: Identified as Abigail Cool who was born on February 6, 1796 in Winslow (now Waterville), Kennebec Co., ME to parents John Jacob Cool (1756-1846) and Abigail Pattee (1771-1848). According to Whittemore (ed.) -The Centennial History of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine on p. 210, John Cool served during the Revolutionary War and "[a]ppears with rank of private on Continental Army pay accounts of Capt. Sewell's company, Colonel Sprout's regiment for service from March 12, 1777 to December 31, 1779. Residence, Winslow, also given in Capt. Brewer's regiment, dated, Camp near Valley Forge, January 23, 1778. [He w]as discharged at Fishkill, N.Y., March 12th 1780, having served full three years; his term of enlistment. He alleged on a paper dated May 26, 1835, that he was then seventy-eight years old and had lived in Waterville, (Winslow) seventy years. He lived on Cool street, which after his death was named for him."
Her parents married on November 11, 1790, and the couple had at least nine children. Abigail and most of her siblings died of tuberculosis within the span of six years in the 1810s and 1820s. Abigail died on December 14, 1817 and is buried with her family at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville, ME.
Excellent visual condition with some light toning and a few stains on linen, thread with excellent color having minimal fading/fugitive color, frame with minor wear. Not examined out of frame.
New England Auctions, 1/16/2021, lot 119.
Ex-collection of the late Howard and Nancy Wagner, Beavercreek, OH.
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