Baker Quilt: West Granville Needlework at the F.G. Baker House inspired the historic Deerfield Arts and Crafts Movement, by Corey Phelon Geske, Copyright 2021

Newlywed Olive Curtiss Baker's patriotic quilt c. 1797-1798, cherished in the 'Daniel Rose, Lt. Jacob Baldwin, Rev. Joel Baker, Phelon House' (1741) restored by my brother Billl Phelon in West Granville, was given (before 1886) by Rev. Joel Baker and Olive Curtiss Baker's granddaughter, Laura Baker Wells (who grew up in the Daniel Rose House), to Deerfield's Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (the first historical society in Western Massachusetts). West Granville's quilt inspired the Deerfield Arts and Crafts Movement, and as I've communicated to Old Deerfield (Geske email with Suzanne Flynt, October 18, 2023), motifs of Olive's bridal quilt evidently inspired the design of the famous bridal chest called the 'Garden of Hearts' at Old Deerfield. For more background, see:

Corey Phelon Geske, "Granville's 'Great Heart' & Garden Quilt messages 'Hope' & 'Peace' @ 225+ Years Old," in Granville's Country Caller, January 2024, pp. 9-10, at https://www.townofgranville.net/sites/g/files/vyhlif4471/f/uploads/jan_2024_0.pdf#page=8&zoom=auto,-99,17 and my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/corey.geske.5/posts/pfbid02m58mBTDnm8NgZQN6UmQgrH3rdLQqgsjBUhsEUgEBqEy3uBbsPAjS3LFgrL8rGthKl

Corey Phelon Geske, "The Daniel Rose House, 1741: Home of Six Revolutionary War Soldiers and the Nation's First Quilt Exhibited at an American Museum," in Granville's Country Caller, March 2021, pp. 2-3, posted at the Granville History Digital Collection, https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1493

See above "Referenced By" link provided for Corey Phelon Geske, (Book 1) "The Daniel Rose, Lt. Jacob Baldwin, Rev. Joel Baker, Phelon House, 1741: The Daniel Rose Family Lived Here, The Daniel Rose Family was There;" also (Book 2) "The Daniel Rose House 'Fort Rose,' 1741 Before and After Restoration by William Brian 'Bill' Phelon;" also (Book 3) "The Daniel Rose House, 1741 & Abner Rose Tavern, 1784, Lt. Jacob Baldwin Tavern 1794-1799." There's more about the quilt in my update for the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System (MACRIS), 196 pp. posted at the Daniel Rose House PART 1 at https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/362.

The above Baker quilt (Book 5) is also referenced in Geske (Book 6) "Theoria to practica and Congregational Independency: From John Singleton Copley's portraiture of ‘Liberty,’ Rev. Jonathan Mayhew identified, to Rev. Lemuel Haynes's Liberty Further Extended, c. 1776" at https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1531, posted in the Granville History Digital Collection sponsored by the Mabel Root Henry Historical Museum, the Granville Public Library, and the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation.