Needlework on Linen of the French Coat of Arms Wrought by Maria Schanck (1815-1852)

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Set Reminder 2026-01-21 10:00:00 2026-01-21 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, NJ: Unreserved https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/nye/property-from-the-collection-of-leslie-and-peter-warwick-middletown-nj-unreserved-21860
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  Needlework on Linen of the French Coat of Arms Wrought by Maria Schanck (1815-1852)
  Middletown Point (now Matawan), New Jersey, 1827
  
  Maria Schanck's grandfather, Capt. John Schanck (1745-1834), was an ensign at the Battle of Monmouth. He was also in the Battle of Germantown, PA. The Captain led a raid on Long Island and captured Major Moncrief and Theophylact Bache and they were traded for Patriot prisoners. He also negotiated the release of Capt. Graydon from British captivity.
  
  At the Battle of Monmouth, Lafayette warned Washington that Gen. Lee was retreating, saving the day. Hence after the war, Capt. John Schanck named his first son, De Lafayette. De Lafayette named his first son, Lafayette after Lafayette's tour of the United States in 1825, the 50th anniversary of the Revolution.
  
  Maria Schanck was the daughter of De Lafayette Schanck (1781-1862) and her brother was Lafayette Schank. Eleanor Conover (1789-1873) was her aunt and Maria was born 1/30/1815 and was the eldest daughter of twelve children. She married William Pigot (1802-1852) of New York City or 12/6/1838 and had 3 children: Mary Ann (4/29/1842-1922), Eliza H. (2/16/1844-1946) and Edward N. (3/20/1852-12/28/1933). Maria died (4/12/1852), only 23 days after the birth of her third child. Only one child, Mary Ann, had descendants (in the Whitlock family).
  
  An identical coat of arms sampler done by Catherine Hendrickson under the tuition of Mrs. A Morris in 1826 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  
  Catherine D. Hendrickson's (1815-1900) parents were Garret & Jane Hendrickson of Pleasant Valley, (now Holmdel) NJ. She married Henry Sickles (1815-1896) in 1836 & they lived in Marlboro, NJ. They had two children Richard (1840-1850) and Henry (1847-?).
  
  Mrs. Morris made the pattern for the sampler for Maria & Catherine. The pattern she used is not a real coat-of-arms, it is a generic pattern according to an expert in Boston. Betty Ring said there are only four coats of arms known outside of Boston. Two were made in the Flower family of Philadelphia and the two mentioned above from Monmouth County, NJ.
  
  Maria and Catherine's teacher, Mrs. A. Morris, was Mrs. Asher Morris of Middletown whose maiden name was Elizabeth Herbert, born in 1779.
  
  Elizabeth Herbert Morris taught needlework at Middletown Point now called Matawan. The school is no longer standing and was replaced by another school in 1836.
  
  Elizabeth Herbert married Asher Morris, (1774-1843) also of Middletown, on February 26, 1799. They had at least one child, Joseph Morris, born in 1800.
  
  Asher Morris was a teacher in the Middletown school which began in 1798 and was located on the lot now occupied by the Dutch Reformed Church on Kings Highway. The first teacher in the school was Nehemiah Shumway who authored a hymnal. Asher Morris is most likely the "A.M." on some early Middletown watercolor reward-of-merits. One of these watercolors is in the Connecticut Historical Society, signed "AM", and another is in a private collection.
  
  The Middletown school closed by 1836 when the Dutch Reformed congregation bought the property and built the first section of the present church. Another Middletown school which opened in 1836 was the Franklin Academy, which still stands today in the center of Old Middletown Village on Kings Highway.
  
  Exhibition:
  Princeton, New Jersey, Morven Museum and Garden, Hail Specimen of Female Art!: New Jersey School Schoolgirl Needlework, 1726-1860, October 3, 2014 thru March 29, 2015.
  
  Provenance:
  M. Finkel and Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996
  Sight: 15 3/4 x 15 in. (40 x 38.1 cm.), Frame: 18 x 17 3/4 in. (45.7 x 45.1 cm.)

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