This "fraktur"-style artifact was made for my maternal great, great, great grandmother Mary Fisher BOWEN (b. 1781 - d. 1850, St. Clair, Bedford Co., PA). by her itinerant schoolmaster, Hugh PUGH (b. 1747/48 Uwchlan, Chester Co., PA - d. aft. 1807, place unknown).
Date: December 9th, 1801
Medium: Brown writing inks; red, green, brown watercolor
Support: Laid paper
Size (H x W) 12-3/4" sq.
Mary FISHER's (maiden) name appears four times within the text.
Hugh PUGH's monogram -- "H Pugh" -- appears twice.
True Lover's Knot, dated 1801
Artist: Hugh Pugh (b.1747/8— d. aft 1807)
About Me
- Meg SM
- Southern New Jersey, United States
- Longtime Graphic Designer with a second career in Kitchen Design; Wife 2.0; Mother of 1/Stepmother of 2, Aunt & Great Aunt, "Baby" Sister, Amateur family researcher. Fraktur and Font Fanatic.
Hugh PUGH's signature monogram
Detail from Lover's Knot. "Lovers well know what it is to part, When between two Lovers there is but one Heart. H. Pugh"
HILLES Farm, near Brownsville, PA.
Occupied by Wm & Rebecca (PUGH) HILLES beginning 1795. Westland, Washington Co. Hugh PUGH lived here with his older sister Rebecca circa 1803. Photo 2007, courtesy Edgar Harris, California Area Historical Society, California, PA.
Dunnings Creek Meetinghouse, original structure. Fishertown, Bedford Co., PA
Mary FISHER married Benjamin BOWEN here, February 20th, 1805.
Mary (FISHER) BOWEN's headstone
Original Location Friends Burial Ground, St. Clair, Bedford Co., PA. Salvaged from destruction, 2006.
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