Sampler
Maker's Name
Hope, Mary A. J.
Location
Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky
Date Made
1814
Maker's Age
12 years old, born 1802
Dimensions
13 ½ x 9 ½ inches
Medium
Silk on linen with cross, Algerian eyelet, and four-sided stitches; thread count: 44/inch horizontal, 43/inch vertical
Provenance
The sampler was made by Mary Ann J. Hope. The sampler passed to Mary’s sister, Isabella Sneed Hope Batterton (1805-1896); then Isabella’s daughter, Sarah Ann Batterton Frisbie (1826-1917); then to Sarah Ann’s daughter, Mary Isabel Frisbie Beach (1849-?), to Mary’s daughter, Vera Estelle Beach (Mrs. Osgood) Scribner (1889-1949). At some point the sampler passed to a prominent Raleigh, NC collector who sold it to Private Collector #7.
Description
The sampler has eight rows of alphabets and numerals separated by simple crossbands, one of which is a Greek key design, seen on several samplers in the AKS Collection, but not often seen on Tennessee samplers. Just above the middle of the sample is the signature which reads:
Mary . A . J. Hope. Sampler . Augt . 1814
The verse is the tenth stanza of “The Universal Prayer” by the English poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and reads:
Teach me to feel Anothers woe
To hide the fault I see
That mercy I to Others Show
That mercy Show to me
Mary Ann Hope was born in 1802 in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky when her father, Michael (1773-1845), was twenty nine years old and her mother, Martha Sneed (1785-1847), was seventeen. Michael and Martha were married in Albemarle County, Virginia before removing to Danville, Kentucky. Michael Hope was English born but Martha Sneed (Snead) was from a well-established Virginia family. Her grandfather Benjamin Sneed was reportedly Thomas Jefferson's first tutor. In 1817 the Kentucky General Assembly named Mary's father Michael Hope as one of the original Danville Academy trustees. The trustees were able to raise over $10,000 in subscriptions but there is no record of any purchase of land by the Academy trustees, nor any record the Academy was ever actually established. It seems that the movement to establish the Academy soon merged with that to found Centre College.
Mary’s siblings included Ellen Batterton (1804-1837), Isabella Sneed (1805-1896), James Robert (1807-1887), Carolyn (1813-1814), Martha E. (1821-1905), and Cynthiana A. (1825-1884).
Mary had one son with James Morgan Hall (?-1830) who was named James F Hall, (1824-?). James Morgan Hall died in New York inn 1830 reportedly of yellow fever.
Mary died as a young mother (possibly in childbirth) on April 30, 1824, in Boyle County, Kentucky, at the age of twenty two. She was buried in the Hope family plot, Lot 14, first section, in Bellevue Cemetery, Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Her sister Carolyn Hope, her father Michael Hope and her mother, Martha Sneed Hope were all buried in the same cemetery.
Micheal Hope provided for his grandson, James F. Hall, in his will (written 1834/in probate 1845). In fact Michael Hope’s will published on page 15 of the "Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records" (McAdams, 1929) gives the only complete record of the six surviving children of Michael and Martha Hope as described above.
Mary . A . J. Hope. Sampler . Augt . 1814
The verse is the tenth stanza of “The Universal Prayer” by the English poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and reads:
Teach me to feel Anothers woe
To hide the fault I see
That mercy I to Others Show
That mercy Show to me
Mary Ann Hope was born in 1802 in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky when her father, Michael (1773-1845), was twenty nine years old and her mother, Martha Sneed (1785-1847), was seventeen. Michael and Martha were married in Albemarle County, Virginia before removing to Danville, Kentucky. Michael Hope was English born but Martha Sneed (Snead) was from a well-established Virginia family. Her grandfather Benjamin Sneed was reportedly Thomas Jefferson's first tutor. In 1817 the Kentucky General Assembly named Mary's father Michael Hope as one of the original Danville Academy trustees. The trustees were able to raise over $10,000 in subscriptions but there is no record of any purchase of land by the Academy trustees, nor any record the Academy was ever actually established. It seems that the movement to establish the Academy soon merged with that to found Centre College.
Mary’s siblings included Ellen Batterton (1804-1837), Isabella Sneed (1805-1896), James Robert (1807-1887), Carolyn (1813-1814), Martha E. (1821-1905), and Cynthiana A. (1825-1884).
Mary had one son with James Morgan Hall (?-1830) who was named James F Hall, (1824-?). James Morgan Hall died in New York inn 1830 reportedly of yellow fever.
Mary died as a young mother (possibly in childbirth) on April 30, 1824, in Boyle County, Kentucky, at the age of twenty two. She was buried in the Hope family plot, Lot 14, first section, in Bellevue Cemetery, Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Her sister Carolyn Hope, her father Michael Hope and her mother, Martha Sneed Hope were all buried in the same cemetery.
Micheal Hope provided for his grandson, James F. Hall, in his will (written 1834/in probate 1845). In fact Michael Hope’s will published on page 15 of the "Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records" (McAdams, 1929) gives the only complete record of the six surviving children of Michael and Martha Hope as described above.
Owner/History of Owner/Credit Line
Private Collector #7
AKS Catalog Number
2021-098
Sources
Ancestry.com
Data graciously supplied by Private Collector #7 who received the data from a prominent sampler collector in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Findagrave.com
Data graciously supplied by Private Collector #7 who received the data from a prominent sampler collector in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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