This magnificent quilt was probably worked on and signed at a Methodist camp meeting circa 1851. The meetings would last a week or more and were often held near the “fording place” close to the mouth of the Little Ausable River in the town of Peru. According to Mildred York Rennell, the mother of Muriel R. Stafford of Keeseville, the people attending the meeting would preach, sing, picnic, and even bring a cow and a kitchen stove. The quilt has 105 names including two Methodist ministers from Mechanicville and Ogdensburg, their families, the Everest family from Meriden, New Hampshire, the Hunt family from Plymouth and Newton, Massachusetts, and the Southmayd family from Jay. A list of the rest of the people attending the meeting is in the Clinton County Historical Museum’s reference library.