Handkerchief
- Object Name:
- Handkerchief
- Object ID:
- 1950.001
- Date:
- circa 1775
- Description:
- Handkerchief. Bandanna. Red printed cotton background. Printed black scatter design. Three borders, narrow black and yellow, wide black and red, and 1.75" yellow, red, black, green, and blue. Badly worn.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- W-46 L-46 inches
- Provenance:
- Note from donor: "This Handkerchief owned by Major Benjamin Bellows through the family of John (W.) Hayward given me by Mrs. Louis R. Lincoln in October 1923." The handkerchief descended through Josiah Bellows (1767-1846), the youngest child of Benjamin Bellows and Mary Hubbard. It descended to Louisa (1792-1878), the daughter of Josiah Bellows and Rebecca Sparhawk, who married John W. Hayward. From her, to her son John W. Hayward (1828-1913), who married Esther Crafts Morse (1830-1910), an aunt of the Edith B. Lincoln. The handkerchief was probably given to Copley Amory because he had purchased the Benjamin Bellows Homestead in 1889.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Copley Armory
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