Purse
- Object Name:
- Purse
- Object ID:
- 1937.014.13
- Place of Origin:
- Saco, ME
- Date:
- circa 1848
- Description:
- Purse. Periwinkle blue satin trimmed with white silk tassels and cording for handles. Lined with grey silk. Contains several receipts for materials purchased by Mrs. Samuel Bradley.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- W-7 D-7 inches
- 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 Piscatiqua Plantation. See Belknap's "History of New Hampshire" and Bouton's "History of Concord" for further details.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Bertha C. Slade
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