A Fraktur Birth Record for Elizabeth Hillier, attributed to the 'New Jersey Artist', Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, Dated 1788

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January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

watercolor and ink on paper

dated June 17, 1788

7 ½ in. by 9 ½ in.

inscribed Elizabeth Hillier/ Daughter of John Hillier & Frances his/ Wife was born the 17th of the 6moh. ADomini 1788 above a triptych centering John Hillier greeting Frances at a doorstep with a small dog jumping up on her dress, flanked by a perched parrot and fruit-bearing branches on the left and a flowering bouquet in a large planter on the right; housed in its original frame with original glass.

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The Haines family, California;

Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 2005;

Samuel Herrup, Sheffield, Massachusetts, March 23, 2005.

Leslie & Peter Warwick The Birth Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Antiques & Replica Handbags , Spring 2010, pp.176-85;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 209, fig. 371.

Leslie and Peter Warwick collected three of the six rare and early fraktur birth records of the Hillier family from Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey by the 'New Jersey Artist'. The Hilliers were Quakers and the patriarch, John, was one of the contributing founders of the Mount Holly Monthly Meeting on Main and Garden Street in Mount Holly, which still stands. Mary and Hannah were married in the Rancocas Monthly Meeting. An early brick house dated 1740 inscribed SGH may be the Hilliers' homestead and is now the American Legion headquarters on Rancocas Road in Mount Holly.

Elizabeth was the fifth child of John Hillier and Frances Haines (1746-1822), who married John Tomlinson and had quadruplets in 1810. Her siblings include: