Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
A Fraktur Birth Record of Eliza Dunn, attributed to E. Firth, Salem County, New Jersey, Dated 1810
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Description
watercolor and ink on paper
dated December 30, 1810
height 8 ⅞ in. by width 9 ⅞ in.
within a circular sun the inscription Eliza Dunn Daughter of/ Samuel Dunn and Wife was Born December 30th/ Anno Domini 1810 Eighteen Hundred and Ten is between two pictorial scenes: a square-rigged ship and sloop sailing beneath moon, sun, and stars above and a home with cedar trees and grazing geese below; the corners with four roundels, the top two encompassing red hearts and the bottom two with biblical verses: the first You must be Born again,/ Says Christ to one of old; Then do from sin refrain, And be a Christian bold, the second For every child of Man/ The scripture doth relate/ Is saved by this Plan/ Or wretched is their state.
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Joe Kindig Sr., York, Pennsylvania;
Ralph Esmerian, New York;
David Wheatcroft, Massachusetts;
Antique Associates at West Townsend, Massachusetts, 2004.
Schaffner and Klein, The Magazine ANTIQUES, "Living with Antiques" 1982, p. 515, Fig. 8 (pictured in Ralph Esmerian’s apartment);
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 208, fig. 368.
There are eight attributed and one signed fraktur records by E. Ffirth, considered to be Ezra Ffirth (1791-1850) of Penns Neck, Salem County, New Jersey. Seven of the nine records include:
1) The Pedrick family record in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Michigan (the only signed E. Ffirth)
2) The Swain family record formerly in the Stewart Gregory Collection
3) Sarah Gilmore's death record in the David McGrail Collection
4) Eliza Dunn's birth record formerly in the Ralph Esmerian Collection
5) The Tufts family record in the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
6) Abigail Turner's birth record in a private collection
7) Hannah Chrisman birth record, location unknown
For related examples by E. Ffirth, see Family Record-Genealogical Watercolors and Needlework, DAR Museum, p.28 and New Jersey History, Vol. 105, No. 1-2, pp. 60-63.
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