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RAREST QUAKER-WILLIAMPENNCOLONY FOUNDING FAMILY SAMPLER
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Pennsylvania Quakers and historians will covet this historically important sampler,not simply for its striking Chester Co. folk art appeal.and the undiscovered instructress it names(Mary Perdue in brilliant blue silk).....but rather for the fact that it descended in one of AMERICA'S EARLIEST FOUNDING QUAKER FAMILIES;THE VERNON FAMILY,whose original settlers(direct ancestors of the samplermaker) were friends of William Penn and came with Penn in his "Holy Experiment" to help settle PENN COLONY!(The sampler includes a packet of the entire history of this Quaker family from 800AD through the founding of the American colonies).William Penn, as a result of favor owed to his father ,was given a massive land grant in the New World.....and commissioned 24 ships populated with persecuted Quakers from England,to come with him to America.Brothers Robert,Randall,and Thomas Vernon were on ship #8(THE FRIENDSHIP) and arrived at Penn Colony in Aug. of 1682...just ahead of William Penn's ship which landed in October of that same year.The brothers initially lived together in the Quaker settlement;but soon each built residences on adjoining parcels of the 1800 acres they acquired from William Penn(Penn's original land grant records included Thomas and Robert as purchasers).Early on Quaker meetings rotated between the rustic house of these early settlers at Nether Providence(Chester)....often recorded at the house of Robert Vernon,our schoolgirl's direct ancestor. Randall Vernon(b.1639 in Eng-d. 1725 in Chester) and his brother Thomas in particular both suffered great religious persecution in England....Thomas,before coming to America with Penn,had the livestock driven off his estate,and property taken from him at will.Unlike his brothers ,however,he eventually fell into disfavor with the Quaker community and was disowned at the Quaker Monthly Meeting(notes on this incidentincluded in the family papers)....eventually migrating from Penn's Colony to the Virginia frontier w his Vernon line settled extensively north of the Little Roanoke River near Lununberg,Virginia.T is great deal more information on these impotant first Quaker settlers to America...........The spectacular,generously proportioned Chester County Quaker sampler(larger of the two samplers at 21x22),is signed in brilliant baby blue silk in the blue cartiouche on the bottom left......."ESTHER VERNON's WORK 1830"......and on the right she names an undiscovered Chester County teacher in the same vivd blue cartouche.."MARY PERDUE TEACHER".Such scarce attibutes are valued by collectors,but the dazzling visual ,folk art imagery that accompanies a sweeping hill panorama steals the show!!!T is a playful dog,whimsical 3 dimensional oversized flowers,colorful giant tulip,paied birds on a bushand much more.....ever more captivating on the solidly stitched expanse of the grassy hillock.....capped by an arcing brilliant green canopy that floats above the scene.!It's so classic Chester County....as are the butterfly and fruiting Quaker basker along the right border.The border itself is fabulous;a deeply arcaded border boasting unforgettably large flowers...in additional,our talented Quaker schoolgirl,the namesake of her aunt Esther Vernon who is commemorated on the sampler above the verse(;"MY AUNT ESTHER VERNON"),also worked a classic verse;the most charming tribute about her sampler;"This work perhaps my friends may have/When I am in my silent grave/And which whene'er they chance to see/May kind Remembrance picture me/While on this glowing canvas stands/The labor of my youthful hands/No other care than this I knew/But Perseverance helped me through".Esther Vernon was born in the original Penn settlement of Chester to parents Abraham Vernon(b.1774) and Mary Bailey who are named in respect on her sampler,just below the striking baby blue upper lines of alphabet:"MY PARENTS ABRAHAM AND MARY VERNON".They were devout Quakers who married in 1801 at the LONDONGROVE QUAKER MEETING HOUSE,and had at least 4 children.....Esther migrated with her family and their Quaker brethren in ...
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