Lydia Stocker was the daughter of Mehitable Norwood (1756-1793) and Joseph Stocker (1745-1795),a Revolutionary War captain. She was born in 1785 in Lynn, Massachusetts, or had at least two siblings,John (1783-1815) and Zachus Norwood (1787-1849). Lydia’s parents had both died by the time she stitched this sampler in 1798, at the age of...
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