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  • 1998.60.1
Title:
  • Elizabeth Aborn's Sampler
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Description:
  • Sampler with a green vine border with upper case alphabet and Arabic numbers in green and brown in the first section. "Eliza Aborn was born April 29th 1782 made this sampler in April 1794" in white, green, and blue. The next section contains a hymn "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but woman that fearest the Lord, she shall be Praised." the lower section contains "Pawtuxet School house built A.D. 1793" and an embroidered rendering of the school house.
Date(s):
  • 1794;
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Material(s):
  • silk floss
  • linen plain weave
Medium(s):
  • Embroidery
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Research Notes:
  • \widctlparElizabeth Aborn (1782-1863) was the youngest daughter of ship Captain Daniel Aborn (1749-1783) and Mary Arnold (1752-1834). Daniel Aborn was born in Newport, R.I. he later moved to Cranston, R.I. and married Mary Arnold of Cranston, R.I. During the Revolutionary War, Captain Daniel Aborn sailed on the privateer Sloop Chance very soon after Elizabeth was born in 1782. He was captured by the British Navy and held on the notorious British prison ship Jersey. By 1783 Capt. Daniel Aborn had been released from the Jersey, captained another ship which then sank with all hands. When Capt. Aborn died at sea in 1783, Mary Arnold Aborn was widowed with at least four children under the age of 12: Jonathan Aborn (1772-1820), Mary Aborn Rhodes (1776-1806), Peleg Aborn (1779-1859), and Elizabeth Aborn (1782-1863) the embroiderer of this sampler. Capt. Daniel and Mary Arnold Aborn are both buried in the Pawtuxet Burial Yard in Warwick, R.I.
    Elizabeth Aborn married Thomas Greene (1775-1857) and they had at least three children: Maria Aborn Greene Harris (1800-1829), Thomas Rhodes Greene (1804-1874) and Caroline Augusta Greene Fiske (1806-1833). Elizabeth Aborn Greene died in April of 1863 and is buried in the Pawtuxet Burial Yard in Warwick, R.I. along with her husband Thomas who died in 1857, her daughter Caroline who died in 1833, and her son Thomas R. Greene who died in 1874. Elizabeth Aborn Greene's daughter Maria is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence, R.I. along with her husband Capt. Edward Bates Harris (1797-1881). Elizabeth Aborn Greene outlived all her siblings, her husband, and two of her children.
    By 1850 Elizabeth (68) and Thomas Greene (75) lived in Warwick, where his listed occupation is Aquaculture. Living with them were: their son Thomas R. (46) and his wife Effalin (41) Thompkins Greene and their three children Mary (21) and Stephen (45) and Caroline (5); and their son George Graves Greene listed as a jeweler, Moses Daily a Black man listed as laborer, and Susan Prophet with no occupation listed.
    By 1860 Elizabeth Aborn Greene (79) is widowed and seems to be living with Owen Thornton (45) framer and Lydia L. Thornton (60) in Pawtuxet, R.I. The next dwelling listed in the 1860 census is her grandson George G. Greene (35) a jeweler, his wife Catherine Ellery McIntyre Greene (30), and their children (Elizabeth Aborn Greene's great-grandchildren) Efalin T. Greene (3) and Mary A. Greene (1).
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