Print, Family Record

Title:

Family Register

Object Name:

Print, Family Record

Object ID:

1991.095

Creator:

Needham, Dwight (1808-1888)Retailer; Kellogg, E.B. & E.C. (est. 1842)Artist

Place of Origin:

Published in NY

Date:

circa 1846

Description:

Print of Family Register, possibly by Dwight Needham, c. 1846. Chromolithograph. Family record of the Hill family, Strafford, NH. Completed in ink with names of parents, Andrew M. (1787-1858) and Sally S. Hill (1792-1839), and their four children, as well as John (b. 1815) and Hannah Huckins (b. 1818), also of Strafford, NH. Colored images of family life and four columns; first image is of a woman in a blue dress with rocking a baby's cradle with a child to the left; second image is of a wedding with the bride and groom, a man and woman to the left and right, another man to the left is marrying them; third image is of a woman and child dressed in mourning clothes and grieving at a monument. Four sections for text, surrounded by a border of flowers, c-scrolls. Lower border has two oval images of working on a farm with a center image being a family standing outside a house. Title: "FAMILY REGISTER." Four columns under title. First column heading: "NAME OF THE / Family." Two lines down first column: "CHILDREN". Second column heading: "WHEN AND WHERE / BORN." Third column heading : "WHEN AND WHERE / Married." Fourth column heading: "WHEN AND WHERE / Died."
List of names under above headings:"Andrew [N] Hill May 12 1787 At Stafford NH March 11th / 1811 by [L] E George April 2&d 1858 at Dover / Sally S. Hill July 18 1792 At Stafford [as above] died March 19, 1839 Strafford".
CHILDREN:
"Levi G. Hill July 7 1812 [No married or death info.]
Andrew S. Hill Nov'r 26 1814 [Married] At Norfolk Va Dec 24 1840 [No death date]
Hannah A. Hill April 21 1818 [Married] At Strafford NH Nov 25 1840 [No death date]
Mary M Hill [b] Aug'st 27 1822 [Married ditto marks] March 29 1840 [d] Dec'r 25 1880 at Strafford
John Huckins [b] March 12 1815 [Married] At Strafford NH Nov'r / 25 1840 by Eld. E. Place [No death date]
Hannah A. Huckins [b] April 21 1818 [shares married notation above]."
Printed text in bottom margin: "E.B. & E.C. KELLOG, 144 FULTON ST. N.Y. & 136 MAIN ST. HARTFORD, CONN. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 Kellog's & Thayer, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. / 251. On far right: "D. NEEDHAM [ ... ] BUFFALO." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-13.1 W-17 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

People:

Hill, Andrew M., Hill, Andrew S., Hill, Hannah, Hill, Levi, Hill, Mary (1862- ), Hill, Sally S., Huckins, Hannah, Huckins, John, Needham, Dwight (1808-1888)

Subjects:

Family records, Pictorial, Family registers, Pictorial