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| Figure 2 Chest with drawers, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1675-1700. Oak with pine. H. 40", W. 48", D. 20". (Courtesy, Historic Deerfield, Inc.; photo, Amanda Merullo.) In The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1976), p. 167, Dean A. Fales Jr. speculated that the chest may have descended from Hannah Talcott (1665-1741), who married Major John Chester at Wethersfield in 1686, to their daughter Sarah. www.historic-deerfield.org |
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