Historically a “pocketbook” was a flat, folded case for money or papers, though eventually the term came to mean a woman’s handbag. According to a note that accompanied this pocketbook, Elizabeth Williams Ogle Brindley made the item for her father, Charles Williams, in 1757. She was probably 15 years of age at the time. The Williams family lived in Christiana Hundred in northern New Castle County, Delaware.