Can we find her family through her quilt?

http://books.google.com/books?id=dcYbU7WJy6AC&lpg=PA24&dq=Z...

Fascinating.

Here ya go:

"...Having four small children to take care of in the fall of 1775 he took a second wife She was a young person from Burlington county state of New Jersey by the name of Zebiah Smallwood a niece of Richard Cheesman who was father of Captain Cheesman who went with Major General Montgomery and fell a martyr to the cause of freedom and his country at the walls of Quebec on the 31st of December 1775..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=NL9YAAAAMAAJ&dq=Zebiah%20Small...

Richard Cheesman is her uncle. Her mother's name was Margaret according to a family tree on Ancestry. Lots of Smallwood - Cheesman marriages too.

I'm building out the tree of Margaret Smallwood. The Cheesman family was from Long Island and came to Fenwick's Colony (!) early and settled in Gloucester. Fun stuff.

Reposting for the entire quote, July 4, 1788:

on the right was seated Mrs. Hewson and her 4 daughters, penciling a piece of very neat sprigged chintz of Mr. Hewson’s printing, all dressed in cottons of their own manufacture; on the back part of the carriage, on a lofty staff, was displayed the calico printer’s flag, in the center 13 stars in a blue field, and thirteen red stripes in a white field; round the edges of the flag was printed 37 different printes of various colours, one of them . . . colours, as specimens of printing done at Philadelphia. Motto – “May the Union government protect the manufactures of America."

Ok now we're off topic but this is too cool a find.

Capt. Jacob Cheesman is Tina Fey's first cousin 7 times removed!
http://www.geni.com/path/Tina-Fey+is+related+to+Capt-Jacob-Cheesman...

Great work, Hatte. And now I'm related through my Massachusetts line.