Antique Needlework Sampler 1829 Maiden Creek, PA 17\" x 11.5\" Alphabet, Doves For Sale

The woven ground is coarse, possibly handspun--the fibers look more like coarse linen/flax than cotton. The sampler shows overall staining and fading, but there are no holes. There is adhesive residue on the back edges where the sampler was glued to a backing for display. The piece measures 17\" x 11.5\". The cross stitch thread colors are blue, cream, brown, and white. The design features a title on the top \"Maiden Creek School 1829\", as well as the alphabet in lowercase and capital letters, and baskets of fruit/flowers, doves, and flowers on the bottom. A slip of paper with information about Maiden Creek township is included, it reads as follows:Maiden Creek township was named after the stream that flowed through it. It was settles in 1732 chiefly by Quakers, and became a township in 1746. Quakers were pioneers of this township, and the old stone building once used as a Quaker Meeting House, and the stone school house near the stone bridge are silent indices of their educational sentiment. They were for education and peace, and it was chiefly due to their friendly relations with the Indians that the people of this township were unmolested.
In 1738 there were seventy families living in Maiden Creek township. From the records of 1784 we learn that the school at Maiden Creek had fifteen scholars. The school was held in an old log school house which was replaced by a stone building in 1807. During the early part of the last century, it was the only school house in that section of the country. It was continued until 1871, an in the days of its greatest usefulness, it spread the desire for learning for which the locality was noted.
This was taken from the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania.
The sampler came from the Merideth family, Quakers, who lived in Chester County and the Maiden Creek area of Pennsylvania, initials LB was Lydia Baldwin.