Phebe J. P. Thayer

Glee Krueger believed the sampler to be from New Hampshire. Phebe J. P. Thayer is thought to be from Cumberland County, Maine but her teacher, Belinda H. Fox was from New Hampshire. It is not known if the sampler was stitched in New Hampshire or whether Belinda Fox was teaching in Maine in 1832. See below for more details about Phebe Thayer and Belinda Fox.

Probaby the Phebe P. Thayer who married Willard Bailey on August 18th 1850 at Cumberland Foreside, Cumberland County, Maine just north of Portland. The ceremony performed by the Reverend Marcus Wright. ("Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch) (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q283-G3D7 : Sun Mar 10 22:13:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Willard Bailey and Phebe P Thayer, 18 August 1850. Willard and Phebe were possibly cousins, the Thayers and the Baileys having intermarried in several generations. Both Phebe and Willard may have been descended from Abraham Cummings of Andover, MA, a Brown University graduate, linguist, philosopher and Open Communion, itinerant Baptist preacher along the Maine coast who married Phebe Thayer of Old Braintree MA in 1781 (History of Durham Maine https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227505933.pdf). Their daughter Phoebe married Isaac H. Bailey and had a daughter Phebe Thayer Bailey in 1807. (https://digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=cumberland_books). Phebe and Willard's marriage at Cumberland Foreside is recorded in the registry of Poland, Androscoggin County, Maine, Willard's hometown where he was a farmer. Phebe died on 30 October 1886 and was buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Androscoggin County.(findagrave.com).

Belinda H. Fox, the teacher, was from New Hampshire. Belinda married in New Hampshire in 1837. (Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 - AncestryLibrary.com p.303)