1. Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller, “The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1996), pp. 267–307; Neil D. Kamil, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Disappearance and Material Life in Colonial New York,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite and Bill Hosley (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1995) pp. 191–251; Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr., “Boston and New York Leather Chairs: A Reappraisal,” in Beckerdite, ed., American Furniture 1996, pp. 175–95.

2. Nancy Goyne Evans, “Design Transmission in Vernacular Seating Furniture: The Influence of Philadelphia and Baltimore Styles on Chairmaking from the Chesapeake Bay to the ‘West’,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1993), pp. 75–117; Nancy Goyne Evans, “Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural Problems in Windsor Furniture,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1994), pp. 2–29; Nancy Goyne Evans, “Frog Backs and Turkey Backs: The Nomenclature of Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740–1850,” in Beckerdite, ed., American Furniture 1996, pp. 17–57; Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Winterthur Museum, 1996).

3. Benno Forman, American Seating Furniture, 1630–1730 (New York: W. W. Norton for the Winterthur Museum, 1988), passim. Robert Blair St. George, “A Plymouth Area Chairmaking Tradition of the Late Seventeenth Century,” Middleborough Antiquarian 19, no. 2 (December 1978): 3–12; Robert Blair St. George, The Wrought Covenant: Source Material for the Study of Craftsmen and Community in Southeastern New England, 1620–1700 (Brockton, Mass.: Brockton Art Center, 1979), pp. 50–51, figs., 46–49.

4. See Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander, “Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1996), pp. 81–105. Robert F. Trent, “The Waldo Chair: A Monument of Early Connecticut Joinery,” in Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 48, no. 4 (Fall 1983): 174–88.

5. Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York: Viking Press, 1966), no. 177, p. 221.

6. Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1941), no. 89, pp. 152–53; and Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), p. 37. John Kirk, American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), pp. 172–74.