Mary Jane Ewing of Perryville (Maryland?) dated her quilt block 1847.
She may have called the group project an "album quilt" as we find the term in use that year...
Cathy Erickson's Collection
1847 Martha Mendenhall, East Nottingham, Maryland
Lydia Preston, Plum Grove, 1847
Handsome album quilts were indeed the thing in 1847--- a few dated blocks.
"Tripping lightly down the river
Frigid years may flit apace.
Still thy heart will guard the giver
On the scroll of thought, a place.
Lizzie, loved one think of me!"
Rebecca Hendricks, Maryland
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Suzanne Francis from a quilt in the Pat Nickols Collection
at the Mingei Museum
National Museum of American History
For Mary Hill from women of the Presbyterian Church,
Maltaville, New York
Philipa (?) and Rachel Bradway