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14 Mary A. Paschall, Westtown School, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, 1825 This is a classic Quaker marking sampler with handsome proportions and composition. The needlework was executed with characteristic Quaker precision, with no decoration or superfluous line. In fact, one must notice that twice the samplermaker, Mary A. Paschall, altered positions of the letters within the alphabet to achieve a better fit or greater balance. Mary was a student at the Westtown School, having entered in April of 1825, at age 10, following in the tradition of her mother Ann Gibson Paschall Jackson (1771-1874). Ann Gibson was a student at Westtown from 1806 to 1807 and two samplers made by her while there are in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. These samplers, a white-on-white darning sampler and a small geometric medallion sampler, were in the private collection of Mary Jaene Edmonds and then donated to the museum in 2000. Ann Gibson Paschall Jackson lived in Darby, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, and, as an adult became a Quaker minister of the Darby and Birmingham Monthly Meetings. A large collection of her manuscript diaries, extracts from journals, memo books, legal papers and business and farm diaries comprise the Ann P. Jackson Family Papers and are in the collection of the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Mary A. Paschall was born in 1815 to Thomas and Ann (Gibson) Paschall. Her father died in 1819 and Ann remained a widow for many years, marrying Halliday Jackson, also a Quaker minister, in 1833. In 1840, Mary married Philip Price Sharpless (1810-1902) of nearby West Chester, a farmer who also operated a brick-making business and later, was director of the West Chester Rail Road. Interestingly, it was said about Philip in 1882, that he was an antiquarian with a strong interest in genealogy and \ ardent collector of Indian Relics.\died in 1885. Many publications of genealogical or historical nature include information on the Gibson, Paschall, Jackson and Sharpless families as they featured prominently in Quaker and civic affairs in the area. A large file of information accompanies the sampler. Worked in silk on linen, it is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a maple frame. Sampler size: 8\Price: $5200. M. Finkel ~ Daughter. AMERICA's LEADI NG sMIPLER AN D NEEDLEw o RK DEALER