Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth Certificate of Mary Jones, attributed to the 'New Jersey Artist', Burlington County, New Jersey, Dated 1781
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Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth Certificate of Mary Jones
attributed to the 'New Jersey Artist'
Burlington County, New Jersey
Dated 1781
Housed in a period painted frame with verse inscribed in the lower margin: Fresh as the grass fur bodies stand, And flourish bright and gay, A blasting wine Sweeps over the land, And fades the grass away. Drawing illustrates Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes.”
8 by 10 in.
Compton Carington Estate Sale, Vincentown, New Jersey, July 28, 1984. Note the Compton Caringtons were direct descendants of Peter Stretch. Job Jones was John Penn’s surveyor for Vincentown, New Jersey;
James and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine.
James and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine.
A nearly identical birth certificate fraktur for a Elizabeth Wills is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 1957.1247). For a detailed discussion of New Jersey fraktur see Leslie and Peter Warwick, "The Birth Records of Burlington County, New Jersey," Antiques and Replica Handbags , vol. 10, no. 2, Spring 2010, pp. 176-185.
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