1. Manchester, N.H.: Currier Gallery of Art, 1970.

2. Historical New Hampshire 35, no. 2 (summer 1980): 163–85. Another article of note is Ann W. Dibble, “Major John Dunlap: The Craftsman and His Community,” Old-Time New England 68, nos. 3–4 (winter-spring 1978): 50–58.

3. Philip D. Zimmerman, “Ecclesiastical Architecture in the Reformed Tradition in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, 1790–1860” (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1985),p. 86, n. 60. Records of the First Church in Derry, N.H. (1726–1808). Major John Dunlap designed and built a pulpit for one of the Londonderry congregations in 1783 (Parsons, p. 45ff.).

4. Published by the town, 1903. Philip D. Zimmerman, “Regionalism in American Furniture Studies,” in Perspectives on American Furniture, edited by Gerald W. R. Ward (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988), p. 36.

5. The visual relationships and hypothesis first appear in ibid., pp. 33–38.

6. Interestingly, this distinctive drawer configuration, which is common in New Hampshire but appears throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut, is rarely encountered in Dunlap furniture.

7. Deborah D. Waters, “Wares and Chairs: A Reappraisal of the Documents,” in American Furniture and Its Makers: Winterthur Portfolio 13, edited by Ian M. G. Quimby (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 167.