53rd Annual Delaware Show

— 57 — STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER 40 Ferry Road, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Open by appointment • 860.388.6809 hubers@antiquesamplers.com • www.antiquesamplers.com BOOTH 30 Maria (Mary) Blakiston Philadelphia, PA dated 1793 At age 12 Mary worked this rare 18th-century Philadelphia silk embroidery, copied from a print. Her parents were Sarah Warnock and Presley Blakiston who was a successful shoe and boot importer and a city commissioner. Mary married John O’Neal, owner of a brickyard and large holdings of real estate and they had four children. Mary died in 1823 and John married her sister Rebecca. Silk and paint on silk; 22¼" x 25¼" sight.