1.
Advertisements of Richard Caulton in Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg,
Va.), November 28December 5, 1745; Harmon Vosburgh and (?) Childs
in Halls Wilmington Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.), February 9,
1797; Reuben Sanborn in Columbian Centinel (Boston, Mass.), January
1, 1806; Gilbert Ackerman in Albany Register (Albany, N.Y.), August
31, 1798; Lemuel Adams in Norfolk Herald (Norfolk, Va.), July 11,
1801. 2. The Tracy family chair is in the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del., acc. 59.1399. The Seaver and Frost chair is privately owned. 3. Thomas J. Moyers and Fleming K. Rich Account Book, 18341840, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Museum Library, Winterthur, Del. (hereafter cited as DCM). 4. Philemon Robbins Account Book, 18331836, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn. (hereafter cited as CHS). The Hayward chair is privately owned. 5. Samuel Douglas and Son and Waite Garret Account Book, 18101858, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Conn.; True Currier Account Book, 18151838, DCM; Solomon Cole Account Book, 17941809, CHS. 6. Alexander Low Account Book, 17841826, Monmouth County Historical Association, Freehold, N.J. 7. Wallace Nutting, The Windsor Chair, Antiques 1, no. 2 (February 1922): 74; Wallace Nutting, A Windsor Handbook (1917; 2d ed., Framingham and Boston: Old America Co., n.d.), p. 88a; Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (1928; reprinted., New York: MacMillan Co., 1966), fig. 2753; The George F. Ives Collection of Antiques, Antiques 5, no. 5 (May 1924): 27388. 8. Silas Cheney Ledger, 17991817, Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Conn. (microfilm), DCM; Elizur Barnes Account Book, 18211825, Middlesex Historical Society, Middletown, Conn. (microfilm), DCM; George Landon Account Book, 18131832, DCM. 9. The Early American Collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Ernst, January 2023, 1926 (New York: American Art Galleries, 1926), lot 402. 10. John M. Bair, Antiques of the Future (Abbottstown, Pa.: John M. Bair, n.d.), p. 47; Wallace Nutting, General Catalogue, Supreme Edition (1930; reprint ed., Exton, Pa.: Schiffer, 1977), fig. 515, p. 93. Cornucopia, a late-twentieth-century furniture-making shop in Harvard, Mass., is also handcrafting Windsor settees of this pattern. 11. Nutting, Furniture Treasury, fig. 1636. 12. David Alling Account Book, 18361854, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J. (microfilm), DCM. 13. Charles F. Hummel, With Hammer in Hand: The Dominy Craftsmen of East Hampton, New York (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1968), fig. 185. Sheed and White advertisement in South Carolina Gazette (Charleston, S.C.), June 23, 1766, as quoted in Alfred Coxe Prime, comp., The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland, and South Carolina, 17211785 (Philadelphia: Walpole Society, 1929), pp. 18889; Milo M. Naeve, An Aristocratic Windsor in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, American Art Journal 11, no. 3 (July 1979): 6774. 14. Nutting, General Catalogue, fig. 415. 15. Nutting, General Catalogue, fig. 210, p. 4. 16. Nutting, General Catalogue, figs. 209, 309, 412, 440. |