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2023.1004.8, Book
Book, A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ALBANY, DECEMBER 3, 1865, ON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF MRS. JEMIMA PRENTICS, WIDO OF THE LATE SARTELL PRENTICE
2023.1004.8, Book

Book, A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ALBANY, DECEMBER 3, 1865, ON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF MRS. JEMIMA PRENTICS, WIDO OF THE LATE SARTELL PRENTICE

Date1865
Subject Jemima Parmalee Prentice (1773 - 1865)
Primary Author William B. Sprague D.D.
Printer Van Benthuysen's Steam Printing House
OriginAmerica, New York, Albany
MediumPaper, cardboard, gilding
DimensionsOverall: 9 × 5 7/8in. (22.9 × 14.9cm)
Credit LineGift of Jonathan Lusk
Object number2023.1004.8
DescriptionThis is a small booklet of 33 pages containing a funeral discourse given by William B. Sprague, D.D. for Mrs. Jemima Parmelee Prentice who died on November 19, 1865. The full title of the book is: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ALBANY, DECEMBER 3, 1865, ON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF MRS. JEMIMA PRENTICS, WIDO OF THE LATE SARTELL PRENTICE. Included in the booklet at the back are three pages of notes outlining the life of Mrs. Prentice. The book is bound in black, and the title is gilded.
Label TextThis small booklet contains a funeral discourse given by Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague on the occasion of Jemima Parmalee Prentice's death in 1865. Jemima Parmalee Prentice (1773-1865) was a remarkable woman distinguished for her intelligence, order, hospitality, and religion. Born February 23, 1773, in Newport, New Hampshire, to Ezra and Sybil Hill Parmalee, in 1794 she married Sartell Prentice, a merchant in the fur trade. Together they had eight children, two of whom died in childhood. She created quilts throughout most of her life. A small scrap of paper in her handwriting records the astounding number of eighty quilts that she made during her lifetime. Three are in the museum collection. Jemima Parmalee Prentice died in Brooklyn on November 19, 1865, at the age of ninety-two. The Reverend Dr. William B. Sprague described her in his funeral sermon as a woman “of great and retentive memory, of a godly life, taken from her Bible; a habit of private devotion that nothing interfered with, useful in life, endeavoring to imitate her divine Master and of strong faith, employing her musical powers on Watts’s hymns, to relieve despondency, and all to God’s glory.”
ProvenanceEloise Prentice Lusk; before 2014, Graham Lusk [1933-2014] (Omaha, NE); 2014, by inheritance to his wife, Sally Nathan Lusk [1938-2021](NY, NE, and MD); 2021, by inheritance to her son, Jonathan Lusk (Potomac, MD); 2023-present, given to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).