Sally Hubbard Hall's Tape and Thread Box, Middletown/Hartford, Connecticut, Circa 1810-14

Descended in the Hall family;

Mrs. Earle E. Andrews, Winchester, Massachusetts;

Stephen-Douglas Antiques, ADA Antiques Show, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1998.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 297-8, fig. 488a-c.

There are four rewards of merits on the top, front, and sides of a paper box bordered with blue paper given to Sally by her teachers: S. Miller, L. Fairchild, Parnel Fairchild. Miss Parnel Fairchild was preceptress at the Westfield Academy, Massachusetts from 1802-3 and was teaching in Middletown by 1810-12. The reward of merit on the top is of the "Viewing of the Balloon Ascension in London" for Sally for spelling and studying from S. Miler. On the front of the box is a reward of merit "Children at Study and Play" given for faithfulness and good behavior from Parnel Fairchild. Rewards of Merit are also on the sides of the box: "Fox and Goose" and "Dog and Cat". There is a cut out collage of flowers on the back. Around the edge of the lid are eight cut out blue stars and five blue stars are on the bottom of the box.

On the inside of the box are two labels of ownership for Sally H. Hall, Middletown, Connecticut. There are six printed and dated acrostics printed by A. C. Treadway in Middletown & Hartford for: Sally Hubbard Hall (3/26/1801-1/31/1880), Hannah Frothingham Hal- sister (?-4/3/1838), Lydia Moore Hall-sister (1793-9/17/1832), Alma Hubbard (9/17/1797-?), and two for Eliza Alen Hal (aunt b. 5/24/1768), and for Elizabeth Alen Hall.

The Joseph Hall House (built 1765) was originally on Wesleyan College property on High Street and was moved around the block; still standing at 206-208 College Street, Middletown, Connecticut. Soon after Sally Hall was born (1801) her father died and uncle had both died. Both widows and their children lived together in the Joseph Hall House with the grandparents. Sally married William Knowles (1796-1890), a mechanic, in 1824 and the two had three children and resided in Middletown, Connecticut.