Plate 76.

A page of borders. From the pattern book of Caroline Canfield, daughter of Judge Judson Canfield and his wife, Mabel Ruggles, of Sharon, Connecticut, and sister of Elizabeth Hannah Canfield. (See Plates 33, 35, 51, 52, 54, and 55; also the description of Plate 81.) She married William Mackay, of Boston and New York, a direct descendant of William Mackay of the group concerned in the “Boston teaparty.” The designs were drawn in pencil and then traced over in ink. (See also Frontispiece and Plates 51, 52, and 77–81.) Owned by the Litchfield Historical Society. Patterns similar to those shown in Plates 76–78 were found also in the collection of Catherine Van Houten (Mrs. Ralph Doremus); see Plates 65–70.