Shaker needlework sampler. Wrought by Elizabeth Field, on June 19th, 1816. Daughter to Jonathan Field. Likely Troy, Rensselaer, New York, mid 19th century.
Family genealogy document included.
Frame: H 15-1/2 in. W 14 in.
Provenance: "Signed and dated 1816 sampler that was acquired from midwestern family descendants, with the unequivocal attribution of it having been Shaker; and stitched purportedly while their ancestor resided at the Watervliet Shaker community, just down the road from where she had been orphaned at some point after her mother died during childbirth in Troy in 1804. Eventually at the age of consent she chose not to stay on, and was said to have left the Watervliet Shaker community to marry. The sampler maker signed the Shaker needlework was "Elizabeth Field 1816". She was born 1804 in Troy; her father was a man named Jonathan Field and her husband Darius Baden, who was born in 1798 in Lee, Massachusetts; very close to the Hancock Shaker Community......Additionally, per the website "10,000 Records of Eastern New York 1777-1834", it states at the time of their marriage right after she left the Watervliet Shaker Community in 1821 at 17 years of age, that Elizabeth Field and her spouse Darius Baden were "Both of Troy" (not sure if that infers they were both together at Watervliet before marrying, or both residing down the street in Troy after both left Watervliet?)." (Source info provided by Consignor).