The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 38
theHall. 1 greate cheast, 15 s. 1 smaller chest with onedrawer, £1 5s. In the chamber over the Hall.A chest with two drawes, £1 10 s. Now we knowperfectly well what was meant by a chest with onedrawer, and, if we may reason from the samenessof the language used at the same time and in thesame… … Fig. 4OAKEN CHEST WITH ONE DRAWER CHESTS 13 drawers below is the item, One Chest and drawers£1 recorded in 1679-80 in the inventory of Mrs.Ann Cole, of Hartford. We pass now from the stage of possibility and un-certainty to one in which there can no longer beany doubt, as the following quotations…
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