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NAME RECORD (#2342)
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| Name |
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First |
Middle |
Marriage |
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Lucy |
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Brandegee |
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| Birth |
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Town |
State |
Country |
| 1751/03/10 |
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| Mother | |
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| Baptism |
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| Marriage (1) |
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First Name |
Middle Name |
Last Name |
Marriage Name |
MarriageDate |
MarriageTown |
MarriageState |
MarriageCountry |
| 1 |
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Elishama, 1754-1832 |
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Brandegee |
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1778// |
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| Children (1) |
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First Name |
Middle Name |
Last Name |
Marriage Name |
Birthdate |
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Sarah |
Milnor |
Brandegee |
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1793/08/02 |
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| Death |
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Town |
State |
Country |
Cemetery |
Cemetery Town |
Cemetery State |
Cemetery Country |
Obit File |
| 1827/02/01 |
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Maple |
Berlin |
CT |
USA |
0 |
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| Notes (1) |
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Note |
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Mrs. Brandegee made a famous red silk dress with the intention, it was said, of presenting it to Martha Washington. She reared the silkworms herself, feeding them the mulberry leaves from the trees surrounding her home, spinning and dying the thread and sewing the gown which in the end was worn by Lucy Brandegee herself. In a 1975 article in the New Britain Herald the writer suggested that "comparing the size of the dress to portraits of our buxom first First Lady, it may have been deemed more tactful to keep the frock at home . . . [also] Lucy would have been more than 50 years old . . . seems unlikely that she would have undertaken such a project at that time." The gown was carefully wrapped and hidden from the light of day, but was presumed to be lost unitl it was found in the archives of the Stanley-Whitman House, now the Farmington Museum where it is on display. She was a widow at the time of her marriage to Brandegee. Died at age 76.
North. History of Berlin, p. 203-204
New Britain Herald. May 3, 1975 |
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| Sources | Cemetery records
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