I'm forwarding this excerpt from the VERMONT list to Middlesex County researchers because one of the artists mentioned was a HULL from Killingworth. - Martha Byrnes Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:38:00 -0400 From: "Cynthia" <Bunnydust@comcast.net> To: VERMONT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Wall stenciling.......New England Hello everyone on a cold, wet, and windy day...... - I have several old issues of OLD TIME NEW ENGLAND and Vol. XLIV, Spring 1954, serial # 156 has an article on "Janet Waring Collection of Stencils", by Mrs. Majorie W.vonSuck. - the following list of names are of the stencilers INDENTIFIED in 1954 . - FURNITURE stenciling done by: ** Ivers White of Ashburnham,Mass, b. 1804 and died 1884 ** George Lord of Portland, Maine b. 1833 and died 1928 ** John Hull, Killingworth,Conn....working in 1832 ** Jarred Johnson, Sheffield, Mass., 1801-1873 ** Thomas Jefferson, Gildersleeve, NY, 1805-1871 ** Joseph Augustus Gibson, New Ipswich,NH, 1812-1875 ** William Page Eaton, Boston,Mass and New Boston,NH, 1819-1904 ------------- WALL stenciling:done by: 1. Moses Eaton, Dublin,NH...1753-1832 2. Moses Eaton,Jr., Hancock, NH, 1796-1886 3. Rusfus Porter ,Boxford,Mass, 1792-1884 (this fellow was known in the Connecticut River Valley area of Conn,Mass,Vt.) not sure about NH 4. Erastus Gates, Plymouth, VT..1811- ? 5. Irwin DeWitt Baldwin, *Van Deusenville, Massachusetts, 1815-1889 ------------------------- * I looked up Van Desuenville and it is a section of Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass. -- Cynthia List administrator for: Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com Can-Deerfield-Attack-1704-L@rootsweb.com CtHartfo-L@rootsweb.com MaHampde-L@rootsweb.com http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Ma-Bay-Colony _____________