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Mary Brinton, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1844 The Brinton and Cooper families were longtime members of the Sadsbury Meeting, a Quaker monthly meeting in southeastern Lancaster County. Mary Brinton was the daughter of William Brinton and Gulielma Cooper and her birth on April1, 1831 was recorded at Sadsbury, as was her marriage in 1861 to a Quaker minister, Joseph John Hopkins. ~lary' s charming little sampler, made in 1844 vhen she was 13 years old, shows the influence of classic Quaker design ombined with a particularly endearing house and lawn scene. Along with the alphabet and numers appears reference to . 1ary's two grandfathers, Jo eph S. Brinton and James M. Cooper. Information about this family is published in The Brinton Genealogy, (1924), along with a wonderful photograph taken in 1922 of Mary (age 91) and her sister, Susanna (age 89). Both ladies are wearing traditional Quaker garb and are seated outside the Sadsbury Meeting. The sampler descended to an adopted daughter, . label Brinton Hopkins. \\%u00b7orked in cotton on linen, the sampler is in very condition with some minor redarning. It has been conservation mounted into a period cornerblock frame. ::>ampler size: 11%\Price: $4800. Leah Deisinger, York Co., Pa., 1848 This sampler was worked in 1848 by eleven-year-old Leah Deisinger, who was born in 1838 to Jacob and Salome (Davis) Deisinger of York County, Pennsylvania. It displays a good variety of alphabets that gradually decrease in scale from the upper to lower portion of the sampler with narrow horizontal bands between each row. Leah did not marry and lived as an adult with her younger sister, Malinda Deisinger Holtzapple, in West Manchester Township, York County, according to the 1880 and 1910 census records. The sampler is worked in silk on linen, is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted in a period mahogany veneer frame. Sampler size: 1414'' x 9W' Price: $3850. M IERi cA's LEADING sAMPLER AND NEEDL EwoRK DEALER M. Finkel ~ Daughter. 19