Stocking

Object Name:

Stocking

Object ID:

1998.024.08 a-b

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire

Date:

circa 1830

Description:

Stockings, pair. Cream color silk, tubular knit, with "S R" embroidered in brown. "N 40" embroidered in cream on one sock (a) only (several runs in silk). Length from heel to top: 26.5". Two handwritten notes pinned to stockings (removed to accession folder): "Countess Rumford's / Stockings / Marked S.R. (Sarah Rumford)" and "Sarah Thompson, (dau. of the famous Benj. / Thompson & Sarah Walker Rolfe, dau. of Rev. Tim / Walker) was born in 1774. After her mother’s death / she joined her father abroad in 1792 or 94, & lived / abroad, save for a couple of visits till 1845 - when she / returned to Concord for her last years. After 1794 / she would use the initials SR & I suppose these stockings / could have been earlier than 1845, since Sarah W. / Fisk (named for her) was married 1834 & her / stockings marked S W Fisk look co-[eval], & have survived. / Also would cross stitch marking come before ink marking?"

Material:

Textile
Silk

Dimensions:

H-26.5 inches

Provenance:

Materials from the Perry house, Exeter, NH, all pertaining to Perry family history.
Sarah Thompson (1774- ; a.k.a. Sarah Rumford > 1794; a.k.a. Countess Rumford) -- Concord, NH. Dau. of Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count Rumford) and Sarah Walker Rolfe, dau. of Rev. Timothy Walker).

Credit Line:

Gift of Henry B. Shepard, Jr., Anne S. Bullis, and G. Dudley Shepard

People:

Thompson, Sarah (1774-1852), Rumford