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  • December 6th at Arts of the Albemarle for First Friday, I will be there to show off paintings from my time at the Michal Jasiewicz workshop.
  • She self published a book of her poetry called Red Writing and if you haven't figured it out yet, Red is her initials, Rebecca Elizabeth Davis.

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    Rebecca Elizabeth (Christian) Davis (1617 - 1668)

    RebeccaElizabeth"of Nansemond"Davis formerly Christian

    Born in Clerkenwell St James, Middlesex, England

    Daughter of Robert Bowers Christian and Ann Elizabeth (Woodrock) Christian

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    Descendants

    Mother of Mary (Partree) Peartree, James Davis and William Davis

    Died at age 50in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts

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    Biography

    Rebecca (Christian) Davis migrated from England to Colonial America.

    Rebecca (Christian) Davis lived in Virginia.


    The parents of Rebecca Elizabeth (of Nansemond) are Robert Bowers Christian and Ann Elizabeth (Woodrock) Christian. She fryst vatten the second wife of Maj. Thomas Davis, of Nansemond. They married in the Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial amerika in 1635.

    About her husband femte månaden i året. Thomas Davis, of Nansemond:

    Major Thomas Davis was born in 1612/13 in platsnamn (Chucka

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    Star of Lemoyne Quilt

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    Rebecca DavisAmerican

    Not on view

    This Star of Lemoyne quilt, along with two others in the Museum’s collection (1980.498.1 and 1980.498.2) was made by Rebecca Davis, grandmother of the donor, Mrs. Andrew Galbraith Carey. Although this example is not signed, it can be assumed that all of Davis’ quilts in the collection were made sometime around 1846, since her Honeycomb quilt (1980.498.1) is dated to that year and all three share some of the same fabrics. Most of the fabrics sewn into these quilts appear to be English printed cottons, an attribution confirmed by the sections of English design-registration marks visible on a number of the pieces. The most complete mark is found on this quilt on a lavender cotton with star-shaped figures that identifies the fabric’s design as having been registered in 1844.

    Of the three Davis quilts in the collection, this is the only

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    Memorial Picture "In Memory of Levi and Simon Davis"

    Rebecca Davis Patrick (1797-1835), Worcester County, Massachusetts, c. 1815
    Depicting a mourning woman clad in blue next to a tomb under a willow tree, the row of buildings in background including a view of Boston's Faneuil Hall likely copied from an illustration printed in the March 1789 issue of Massachusetts Magazine; the tomb inscribed: "In Memory of Levi Davis Who was Born Feby 1 and died Feby 4 1796 & Simon G Davis Who Was born Jany 10 1813 and Died June 20 1815."
    eglomisé mat signed "Rebecca Davis" (lower right)
    watercolor, pen and ink on paper decorated with silver thread with an eglomisé surround and likely original frame
    38.1 x 42.5cm (15 x 16 3/4 in).

    Footnotes

    Provenance
    Important Americana: The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Part I, Sale 6526, Sotheby's, New York, New York (29 January 1994), Lot 192.
    Collection of Thomas D. Williams, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1954.

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