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Just found out about this amazing phenomenon. I saw a house with 3 or 4 panes like this. Supposedly when a woman became engaged she would take the ring and scratch her maiden name in a window of her house.
I have found only 2 online references to this, here is one from an article:
I forgot to mention in the right place that on a pane of glass in one of the chamber windows of my old house is scratched the name of Ann H. Sheaf, and the date 1802, still faintly legible. This lady was about 18 years old when she wrote her name there. She was the daughter of Jacob Sheaf of Portsmouth, and married Charles Cushing, a cousin of my grandfather, and resided in the old Governor Wentworth house at Little Harbor (now the summer residence of Mr. J. T. Coolidge of Boston) and died there at the age of over 90 years. Mrs. Cushing, the wife of Jacob Sheaf, was Mary Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy and Ann Huske. Edmund Quincy's sister Dorothy married 1st. Governor John Hancock, and, 2nd. Captain James Scott. She was the "Dorothy Q," of Dr. Holmes' poem of that title.
I have found only 2 online references to this, here is one from an article:
I forgot to mention in the right place that on a pane of glass in one of the chamber windows of my old house is scratched the name of Ann H. Sheaf, and the date 1802, still faintly legible. This lady was about 18 years old when she wrote her name there. She was the daughter of Jacob Sheaf of Portsmouth, and married Charles Cushing, a cousin of my grandfather, and resided in the old Governor Wentworth house at Little Harbor (now the summer residence of Mr. J. T. Coolidge of Boston) and died there at the age of over 90 years. Mrs. Cushing, the wife of Jacob Sheaf, was Mary Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy and Ann Huske. Edmund Quincy's sister Dorothy married 1st. Governor John Hancock, and, 2nd. Captain James Scott. She was the "Dorothy Q," of Dr. Holmes' poem of that title.
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