Hi Everyone, I wanted to pass along something I read in the "Early American Home" magazine for December 2000. It is an article entitled Lancaster County Quilts (PA), by Jeanmarie Andrews. "The county's earliest known Quaker quilt, pieced from small triangles of fine dress silks, was made by Deborah Simmons Coates, c 1820. (it was cut down the middle so it could be passed on to two descendants.) In the center is this stamped image of a slave in chains and the words 'Deliver me from the oppression of man'." Deborah's husband, Lindsey Coates, was active in the abolitionist movement; their home was Station #5 on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County." Heritage Center Museum Collection. Linda Zikewich