1. 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 & Fuller Memorial, 1979). 2. Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, and Gilbert T. Vincent, American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey 1650–1800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991); Peter M. Kenny, “Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1994), pp. 107–36; Robert A. Leath, “Dutch Trade and Its Influence on Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Furniture” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1997), pp. 21–46. 3. St. George, Wrought Covenant, p. 65. New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, edited by Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, 3 vols. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), 2: 210–11. 4. Kenny, S afford, and Vincent, American Kasten, pp. 36–43. 5. Although Dutch chests of the type being discussed commonly circulate on the antiques market, they are not well represented in European museums. One of the best selections of them in print is in Katalog Der Möbelsammlung (Flensburg, Germany: Städtisches Museum, 1976), p. 101, nos. 308–11. 6. This construction, known as a “clapboard back,” is illustrated in Kenny, Safford, and Vincent, American Kasten, p. 43. 7. Patricia E. Kane, Furniture of the New Haven Colony: The Seventeenth-Century Style (New Haven, Conn.: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1973), pp. 24–31; St. George, Wrought Covenant, p. 66. Two additional chests by the maker of the Cranston family example are illustrated in Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: Macmillan Co., 1928), no. 28, and in the advertisement by Bernard and S. Dean Levy in Antiques 155, no. 6 (June 1999). 8. St. George, Wrought Covenant, p. 35. 9. Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess (Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, 1865), passim. 10. Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture 1630–1730 (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988), pp. 108–9; Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), fig. 21; Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), pp. 144–45. 11. George Dudley Seymour’s Furniture Collection in The Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1958), pp. 64–65; Forman, American Seating Furniture, pp. 108–12, 124–28. 12. William N. Hosley, Jr., and Philip Zea, “Decorated Board Chests of the Connecticut River Valley,” Antiques 119, no. 5 (May 1981): 1146–51; St. George, Wrought Covenant, nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 44, 71, 78. 13. John H. Greene, Jr., The Building of the Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island, 2d ed. (Privately printed, 1952), n.p. Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), figs. 6–17. 14. Wallace Nutting illustrated one of the small tables in Furniture Treasury (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1928), fig. 2723, although he identified it as a stool; it was owned in Barrington, Rhode Island. The Easton family history of the Moore oval leaf table is recorded in the Benno M. Forman Papers, collection 72, box 7, object entries 58.565, 58.566, 58.567, and 67.1455, Joseph Downs Manuscript Library, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. The ownership of the Easton table is recorded in J. Lloyd Hyde and Lorraine Dexter, “The Furniture of the Library,” in Redwood Papers: A Bicentennial Collection, edited by Lorraine Dexter and Alan Pryce-Jones (Newport, R.I.: Redwood Library and Atheneum, 1976), p. 92, as follows: “In the Webster Room also is a beautiful gate-leg table from the collection of Mr. Cornelius Moore and on loan from Providence College.” The college withdrew the table in 1981 and sold it at auction (Christie’s, Fine American Furniture, Silver and Decorative Arts, New York, September 19, 1981, lot 539). The Easton history was not cited in the catalogue. A bequest of New England silver made by Moore to the college was sold in 1986 (see Sotheby’s The Cornelius C. Moore Collection of Early American Silver, New York, January 31, 1986). Some of Moore’s furniture was sold at auction in 1971 (see Parke-Bernet Galleries, Important American Furniture from the Collection of the Late Cornelius C. Moore, Newport, Rhode Island, New York, October 30, 1971). The Chipstone oval leaf table is illustrated and discussed in Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), pp. 278–79. Benno M. Forman had informed Stanley Stone, co-founder of the Chipstone Foundation, about the Easton family table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art oval leaf table is illustrated in “Early American Interiors with Contemporary Window Hangings,” Antiques 50, no. 4 (October 1946): 240. One other oval leaf table is illustrated in an advertisement for Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Antiques 136, no. 3 (September 1989). The Christopher Townsend house staircase is illustrated in Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), p. 71. Evidently dealers and collectors have been aware for over fifty years of the Newport origins of this shop tradition, even though Cornelius Moore’s table was never published; see Albert Sack, Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1950), pp. 238, 240.