Drawing, Family Record

Title:

A Record of Mark Demerit's Family

Object Name:

Drawing, Family Record

Object ID:

2022.009.04

Creator:

March, JosephArtist

Place of Origin:

Farmington, NH

Date:

1816

Description:

Family Record of Mark Demeritt (1792-1875) and Abigail Leighton (1799-1881) of Farmington, NH, 1816. Hand-drawn ink on paper with central circle surrounded by and filled with text. Central circle is topped by a rectangular cartouche of a single masted vessel and flanked by rectangular cartouches in each corner. Top left cartouche depicts a centaur with bow and arrow, top right cartouche depicts a crouching lion. Row of four circles along bottom edge with rectangular vertical cartouche in bottom right corner. Bottom right cartouche depicts a woman in a field holding sheaves of wheat. Modern wood frame, brown with gold and black inner border, cream colored mat, glazing.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-11.5 W-14 inches

Provenance:

Mark Demeritt (1792-1875) of Farmington, NH, and Abigail E. Leighton (1799-1881) of New Durham, NH, were married on July 21, 1816. They farmed land in Farmington and raised nine children born between 1818 and 1840. Dorothy A. Bean (1937-2021), who lived at the Demeritt Homestead and preserved family collections, was the daughter of Joseph Demeritt Bean (1904-1990) and Donna Otey. Joseph D. Bean had inherited the 340-acre farm from his parents, Ivory U. Bean (1868-1960) and Ida M. Wyatt (1871-1941), who had inherited the property from Joseph L. Demeritt (1831-1915), a son of Mark and Abigail (Leighton) Demeritt.

Credit Line:

Bequest of the Dorothy A. Bean Revocable Trust

People:

Demeritt, Mark (1792-1875), Demeritt, Abigail E. (1799-1881)

Subjects:

Family records, Pictorial