MARYLAND / PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY RECORD NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, the top third featuring three alphabet and numeral rows above "Mary ..B.. Winrott was born the 7th day / of April 1824... Made this sampler / under the instruction of S.. Shriver / in the eleventh year of my age / 1835", the center third with family names of "A... Winrott. S.. Winrott / L... Winrott .M.. Winrott ..L.. Winrott / J ..Bitman S.. Bitman H..Bitman" over a blank section, possibly for more names, with two eight-point stars, the lower third having four names of "D.. Shriver / S.. Shriver" and "M.. Snyder / B.. Snyder", below with a basket of flowering vines flanked by two eight-point stars, all encompassed by a scrolling flowering-vine border. Housed under glass in a modern frame. Together with a hardcover volume of "A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860" by Gloria Seaman Allen, signed by author and inscribed by Delores Fowler Klaber, including copies of genealogical research compiled by Klaber. Two pieces total. Dated 1835. 14 1/8" x 17 5/8" sight, 16 5/8" x 20 1/8" OA.
Very good to excellent overall condition with light toning, a few stains, some light fading and fugitive color to some thread, frame with minor wear. Not examined out of frame.
Published: Allen - A Maryland Sampling, pp. 157-158, fig. 9-21.
Provenance: From the collection of Nick Routson, Phoenix, AZ.Ex-collection of Delores Fowler Klaber, Dayton, OH.
Catalogue Note: Mary (Maria) Barbara Winrott was born in 1824 to parents Andrew Winrott (Wintrode) (1789-1833) and Lydia Creps (Krebs, Crebs) (1800-1885) of Littlestown, Adams Co., Pennsylvania. The two Snyder names are identified as Mary's maternal great-grandfather, Michael Snyder (Schneider), and her grandmother and namesake, Maria Barbara Snyder Creps.After Mary's father died, her mother remarried in 1835 to Henry Biteman (Bitman, Beitman) (1797-1853), and the family moved west to Allen Co., Ohio shortly after 1840. On September 27, 1844, Mary married Andrew Edmiston (1824-1851), and she remarried twice after his death to Aaron Parker (d. 1866) and to Peter Faze (1820-1891) of Lima, OH. Mary died in 1886 and is buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Lima. In "A Maryland Sampling", Gloria Seaman Allen writes that "'S. Shriver' is tentatively identified as Susanna Shriver (1780-1762), ninth child of Rebecca Ferree (1742-1812) and David Theobold Shriver (Schreiber) (1735-1826) of 'Avondale' farm on Little Pip Creek, near the town of Westminster in Frederick County (later Carroll County)." The two Shriver names on this sampler are possibly Susanna and her father David. Allen also states "[t]here is no evidence that Mary Winrott and her immediate family ever lived in Maryland. Since Adams County was on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border, she may have boarded with relatives when she attended S. Shriver's school in 1835. Her uncle, Alexander Creps, had married Rebecca Maus in Frederick County in 1832 and lived in the Westminster area before moving to Ohio. Mary Winrott's sampler is the only one to name S. Shriver as her teacher. However, three other samplers, dating between 1832 and 1837, can be attributed to the same instructor on the basis of style and on the location of their makers in the Westminster area of Frederick County."

Very good to excellent overall condition with light toning, a few stains, some light fading and fugitive color to some thread, frame with minor wear. Not examined out of frame.