A Fraktur Birth Record for Isaac Hillier, attributed to the 'New Jersey Artist', Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, Dated 1780

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Description

watercolor and ink on paper

dated 1780

7 ½ in. by 9 ½ in.

inscribed Isaac Hillier/ Son of John Hillier & Frances his/ Wife was born April ye 25th ADomini 1780 above a triptych centering a bowl with branches with flowers, flanked by a an owl and bird in a tree and two birds on the ground on the left and a horse tethered to a tree on the right; housed in its original frame with early glass.

The Haines family, California;

Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 2005;

Samuel Herrup, Sheffield, Massachusetts, March 23, 2005.

Leslie and Peter Warwick, "The Birth Records of Burlington County, New Jersey," Antiques & Fine Art Magazine, Spring 2010, vol. X, Issue 2, pp. 176-85;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 209, fig. 370.

Leslie and Peter Warwick collected three of the six rare and early fraktur birth records of the Hillier family from Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey by the 'New Jersey Artist'. The Hilliers were Quakers and the patriarch, John, was one of the contributing founders of the Mount Holly Monthly Meeting on Main and Garden Street in Mount Holly, which still stands. Mary and Hannah were married in the Rancocas Monthly Meeting. An early brick house dated 1740 inscribed SGH may be the Hilliers' homestead and is now the American Legion headquarters on Rancocas Road in Mount Holly.

Isaac was the middle child of John Hillier and Frances Haines (1746-1822), who moved to Ohio and died there at the age of 26. His siblings include:

Mary (1777-1854), see lot 55 for his fraktur birth record
John (1778-1779)
Isaac (1780-1806)
Hannah (1782-1830)
Elizabeth (1788-1860), see lot 56 for her fraktur birth record