And back to me, with all its memories of childhood, youth, and maturer years; its associations of joy and sorrows; of smiles and tears; of life and death, has returned to me THE PATCHWORK QUILT. "The Patchwork Quilt," The Lowell Offering, volume V (1845)

 

THE QUILT:  The Tradition of the Friendship Quilt

• Who made the quilt?
• View the quilt
• Detailed photographs of each block
• Fabrics used in the quilt
• Quilt diagram, indicating the placement of each block and its inscription

THE COMMUNITY:  West Rochester, Vermont

Maps

• 1855 Hosea Doten map of West Rochester, Vermont (detail)
• 1869 Beers atlas map of West Rochester, Vermont (detail)
• 1895 map of Vermont, indicating the location of West Rochester

• 1846 map of Lowell, Massachusetts, showing the location of the Merrimack Corporation, where the Copley sisters worked

Census records

• 1850 population census, West Rochester, Vermont (excerpt)
• 1850 agricultural census, West Rochester, Vermont (excerpt)
• 1860 agricultural census, West Rochester, Vermont (excerpt)
• 1870 agricultural census, West Rochester, Vermont (excerpt)

Photographs

• Photographs of the gravestones of the quilt families in West Rochester, Vermont
• Photographs of the ruins of the Smith family farm in West Rochester, Vermont

• ca. 1910, photo postcard of West Rochester, Vermont
• Additional photographs of the Rochester area, from the UVM landscape change program

• Photographs and illustrations of the Merrimack Mills in Lowell, MA, where the Copley sisters worked in 1850

Research

• Vermont platform cairns, by Norman E. Muller (includes a discussion of the cairns found on the property of Chester M. Smith in West Rochester, Vermont)

THE FAMILIES:  A Summary of Genealogical Research

• Family trees

• Bliss, Hannah (Mrs.)
• Brink, Alice A. (Miss)
• Brink, Dyantha M. (Miss)
• Brink, Permelia (Mrs.)
• Brink, Polly (Mrs.)
• Brown, Hannah J. (Mrs.)
• Carr, Almina K. (Mrs.)
• Carr, Sarah Ann (Miss)
• Carr, Susan G. (Miss)
• Copley, Adaline E. (Miss)
• Copley, Hannah (Miss)
• Copley, Lois A. (Miss)
• Copley, Mary J. (Miss)
• Copley, Ruth (Mrs.)
• Dyer, Elizabeth M. (Mrs.)
• Jones, Esther C. (Mrs.)
• Kinsman, Roxy A. (Miss)
• McAlister, Lovina (Mrs.)
• Root, Mary (Mrs.)
• Smith, Lovina (Mrs.)
• Smith, Lucy R. (Miss)
• Smith, Mary F. (Miss)
• Smith, Miriam (Mrs.)
• Smith, Olive T. (Miss)
• Smith, Sarah M. (Mrs.)
• Thomas, Esther W. (Mrs.)
• Towl, Hannah (Miss)
• Towl, Lucinda (Mrs.)
• Whitney, Sarah A. (Mrs.)

SOURCES:  A Comprehensive List

• Source list

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