Pencilled docket on folded letter: 'Letter telling of last illness of Henrietta Catherine Gaillard'
Book 1, Page 54 ·1858
Transcription
A folded sheet of lined paper, blank except for a brief pencilled docket written across the lower right quadrant in cursive. The sheet is heavily creased from folding.
Letter telling of last illness of Henrietta Catherine Gaillard wife of Joseph Sanford Barker who was father of Samuel Barker, who married Ellen Milliken
AI Notes
The outer face of the folded sheet that encloses the seven-page account on pp. 047–053. The page is heavily creased from folding, with brown staining along the fold lines. The pencilled docket — written in the compiler’s hand, almost certainly Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker) — identifies the enclosed letter as the account of Henrietta Catherine Gaillard’s last illness, names her husband Joseph Sanford Barker, and traces the descent to Samuel Barker who married Ellen Milliken (the writer’s parents). Together with the inscribed slip on p045 this fixes the writer of the 1858 account as Ellen Milliken Barker (later Mrs. Thomas Porcher), Henrietta’s granddaughter.
Docket in the compiler’s hand. Henrietta Catherine Gaillard (b. 6 Sept 1774, d. 13 Aug 1858) married Joseph Sanford Barker (b. Newport R.I. 31 March 1771, d. 6 Nov 1844) in May 1789; their eldest son Samuel Gaillard Barker (b. 1799, d. 1863) married Ellen Milliken Barker (b. 1807, d. 1874), and it is the latter’s daughter — also Ellen Milliken Barker, later Mrs. Thomas Porcher — who wrote the enclosed seven-page account.