A rectangular sampler depicting an arch over two classical columns within which is embroidered the record of the Baker family of Franklin, Massachusetts. The columns are worked in shades of light green, light blue, cream/yellow, and white with simple capitals and bases. The arch is worked in largely white threads with shades of blue added. A reserve in the center top includes the embroidered title in light green script letters with elaborate tendrils, "Family Register." Within the confines of the arch are three columns labeled "Names," "Births," and "Deaths," with lines embroidered to separate the information below. Listed first are the parents, their birth dates, and their wedding date. Following this are the names of their seven children with their order and their birthdates given. No deaths are listed. Beneath this section, at the bottom of the sampler is a scene including a green lawn with flowers and a cartouche formed by the ground and a vine within which the name of the embroiderer is worked is green stitches "Wrought by/Charlotte Baker/Franklin, 1822." To the right of this is a weeping willow-like tree overarching an urn on a plinth with a flower growning behind the right column. The needlework is embroidered in both twisted and untwisted silk threads, chenille threads, and crinkled silk threads in shades of light green, light blue, medium blue, cream/yellow, white light orange, medium teal blue, brown, and taupe on a plain woven, open weave, [handspun] linen ground. Some wool might also be included. Stitches include satin, knotted, chain, cross, tent, and outline. The sampler is conservation-mounted in a walnut frame [original per the dealer], which features deep leaf carving on all four sides with areas of cross hatching and punch marks at bottom and top and applied brass corner elements in the corner blocks.