Plate 82.

White mull dress. Embroidered by Ruth Freeman Packard, daughter of the Reverend Asa Packard and Nancy Quincy, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, about 1818. Nancy Quincy was the daughter of Colonel Josiah Quincy (1708–1784), of Braintree, Massachusetts. Ruth Freeman Packard married the Reverend George Trask, of Framingham, Massachusetts. The embroidery is 14 inches deep and the width of the skirt 3 yards. It contains seventeen of the designs sometimes called palm leaves. The dress is now in the possession of Mrs. Trask’s daughter, Mrs. Ruth Quincy Powell, of Scranton, Pennsylvania.