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 386
he dining-roomwere, therefore, the apartments in which the mealsof the better classes were eaten. This remained sountil about 1725, when the hall began to be calledthe sitting-room by some, and, a little later, the keep-ing-room by others. In and about Hartford, Conn.,it was called the… … Fig. 92A SETTLEMade in 1769 TABLES 217 its name. It appears in the estates of many of thebest people down to about 1750, and is mentionedin the Boston records as late as 1770, if not later.From about 1680 its furniture, like that of all otherparts of the house, became more rich and abundant.Here…
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