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Whip

Object Name:
Whip
Object ID:
1937.014.07
Date:
1800-1850
Description:
Whip, owned by Samuel Bradley (1802-1849) of Hollis, NH. Ivory handle. Black leather shaft. Braided thong, detached.
Material:
Ivory
Leather
Provenance:
Colonel Isaac Lane lived in Hollis, ME, and died there in 1833. His daughter married Samuel Bradley. Samuel Bradley was born in Fryeburg, ME, and moved to Hollis where he bought a house when he married Maria Jane Lane. Later he moved to Saco, ME, where he died. His daughter, Sarah Jane Bradley, married Edwin Ruthven Wiggin, a lawyer in Saco, who was directly descended from Andrew Wiggin, first governor of the Piscataqua Plantation.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bertha C. Slade
Subjects:
Whips
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