Plate 75.

Fichu for the head. About three-quarters size. Made by Sarah McCoon Vail, of Troy, New York, in 1830, soon after her marriage to Judge George Gould, Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York. He was the son of Judge James Gould, of Litchfield, Connecticut, Assistant to Judge Tapping Reeve, who founded the first law school in the United States, at Litchfield. Mrs. Gould learned to make this lace at the school of Madame O’Kill in New York City. Given to the Litchfield Historical Society by Mrs. Gould’s granddaughter, Miss Natalie Lincoln.