Chest of Drawers
- Object Name:
- Chest of Drawers
- Object ID:
- 2017.039
- Creator:
- Everett, Daniel (1791-1876) -- Cabinetmaker
- Place of Origin:
- New London, NH
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Chest of drawers, bow front. Four drawers, simple curved skirt, and French bracket feet. Inlaid bands around edge of top. Mahogany veneers with maple and birch(?) inlays; pine and brass. Owner's notes handwritten in ink taped to inside of second drawer: "Made by / Daniel Everett / for his sister / Emily Everett Gates / Almira D. E. Gates Raleigh / Sarah Emma Raleigh Blanchard / Elizabeth Blanchard Wheeler / Dorothy Wheeler Sanborn / Elizabeth Sanborn". Owner's notes handwritten in ink taped to upper right corner of back of chest: "Made by / Daniel Everett / for his sister / Emily Everett Gates / mirrors & small bureau".
- Material:
- Mahogany
Maple
Pine
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-36.2 W-40 D-22 inches
- Provenance:
- According to two handwritten notes taped to the chest, it was made by Daniel Everett (1791-1876) of New London, NH, for his elder sister Emily (Everett) Gates (1787-1862), probably around the time of her marriage to John Gates in 1810. The chest descended from Emily Everett Gates to her daughter, Almira D. E. (Gates) Raleigh (1827-1897) of New London, Warner, and Boscawen; then to her daughter, Sarah Emma (Raleigh) Blanchard (1852-1944) of Boscawen, Concord, Waterford, CT, and Worcester, MA; then to her daughter, Cornelia Elizabeth (Blanchard) Wheeler (1884-19 ) of Worcester, MA, Brooklyn, NY, and Boscawen; then to her daughter, Dorothy Raleigh (Wheeler) Sanborn (1917-2013) of Boscawen; and finally to her daughter, Elizabeth (Sanborn) Millard (b. 1944) of Boscawen. The chest was purchased from the heirs of Dorothy Sanborn by an unidentified person after her death in 2013. It was sold by George Cole Auctions, Red Hook, NY, on December 3, 2017.
Born in New London, Daniel Everett was the son of Jonathan and Mary (Messenger) Everett. He married Rachel Clement in 1818 and worked as a cabinetmaker in New London until the 1840s when he moved to Sanbornton. By 1860 Daniel and Rachel Everett had moved to Salisbury where they lived near their son, Daniel R., until shortly before his death on August 9, 1876. Daniel Everett and his brothers David and Jonathan were anti-slavery advocates. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
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