Embroidered Sampler: Starr Coat of Arms
Sarah Starr American
Not on view
This unusual sampler, which seems to date from the 1770s, proves that well-to-do families in areas less cosmopolitan than Boston also fell under the spell of heraldry. There were three Sarah Starrs of Middletown, Connecticut, who could have been this sampler's maker: Sarah Starr Ruggles Potter (b. 1760), Sarah Starr Bailey (b. 1763), or Sarah Starr Lathrop (b. 1759). Many members of the extended Starr family resided in Middletown during the eighteenth century; some of the men worked as merchants, perhaps indicated by the scales in the central crest, while others were in shipping.
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