An Album Quilt, Rockland County, New York, Circa 1860

American Hurrah;

David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts;

Grace and Elliott Snyder, New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, 2000.

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 160, fig. 298.

The squares are dated 1860 and the majority are signed or initialed buy the following:

1. Mary Ann Seaman -age 45, her husband Arnet; age 47, is a brick manufacturer, Warren Village, Rockland County, New York.
2. I.H.Seaman - John H. Seaman, age 11, son of Arnet & Mary Arnet Seaman, Warren Village, Rockland County, New York.
3. Ambrose Seaman - age 12, son of Arnet and Mary Ann Seaman, Warren Village, Rockland County, New York.
4. William H. Seaman - age 20, carpenter, Ramapo Township, Rockland County, New York.
5. Virginia Williamson - age 16, lived with Mary Ann & Arnet Seaman, Warren Village, Rockland County, New York.
6. Loretta Nye - age 16, her father, Meltyre Nye, is a brick manufacturer, Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York.
7. Susan Rhodes - age 45, lived with the Denikes (see below), Warren Village, Rockland County, New York.

The center column of squares is only initialed as: MCD, JRD Jr., HD, JRD, and EMD. Susan Rhodes was living with the Denike family who were likely leaving the area and their initials match those on the coverlet.

JRD - John R. Denike, 41, a boatman

MCD - Martha C. Denike, 40, wife of John

JRD - John R. Denike, 19, John & Martha's son who si also a boatman.

John married Adelia Mabie April 4, 1862. He was in the First New York Dragoons in the Civil War and died in 1864.

EMD - Elizabeth M. Denike, 15, John & Martha's daughter

HD - unidentified

Two other square with initials are EHC and HBI, which could be Edward Clark, age 24, a clerk and the last is unidentified. John R. & Martha Denike left Haverstraw in 1860 and went back to John's family in Phillipstown, Putnam County, New York, where John became a hackman.