Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN To me the writing (and

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Handwoven and Embroidered Textile by Sarah Sanborn (NH, 1732-1792) with Family Note native amercAN To me the writing (andI love finding very old things with notes about their histories carefully attached to them; we should all have such presence of mind. And the note here, written in 1936 either by grand niece Glaydis S. Little herself or someone who knew her, tells us this finely handwoven textile, embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn, dates to the 18th century. And a search for Sarah Sanborn immediately turns up a Sarah Sanborn, born in 1732, in Hampton, Rockingham