Bracelet
- Object Name:
- Bracelet
- Object ID:
- 1995.612.14
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Mourning bracelet. Band of woven dark brown hair. Oval gold case containing light brown hair, covered with glass. Case engraved on back in script, "I. Lane / Obt. Oct. 1833. / Aet. 69 yrs". Gold chain.
- Material:
- Metal
Gold
Hair
Glass - Dimensions:
- W-1 L-3 inches
- Provenance:
- Colonel Isaac Lane lived in Hollis, ME 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 where he died. His daughter, Sarah Jane Bradley married Edwin Ruthven Wiggin, a lawyer of Saco, ME, who was directly descended from Andrew Wiggin, first governor of the Piscatiqua Plantation. See Belknap's "History of New Hampshire" and Bouton's "History of Concord" for further details.
- Credit Line:
- FIC
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