Zilpah Wadsworth sampler, Portland, 1786
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Description
Embroidered onto this sampler are "Zilpah Wadsworth/her Sampler aged 8" and "1786", "Remember now thy Creator/in the days of thy youth." Zilpah was the mother of noted poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.