The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and WaysMoore, N. Hudson
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The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways
Moore, N. Hudson
Furniture
Among the smaller articles were several pairs of andirons, tongs
and shovels, bellows, brushes, toasting-forks, and "1 hot rache in
cellar," with many blankets, 19 coverlids, pillows, bolsters, bottles
and pickle-pots, wine-glasses and pewter water-plates. There were also
two tables, one "a mahogany spider-make tea-table, £1 11_s._" and "1
mahogany table £11," showing that articles of this wood obtained good
values even then. The list of the goods in all of the rooms of Belvoir
is far too long to be given here, but in the dressing-room connected
with Colonel Fairfax's bedroom were "1 oval glass in burnished gold,
(£5 10_s._), 1 mahogany shaving-table, 1 mahogany desk (£16 16_s._), 4
chairs and covers, 1 mahogany settee bedstead, Saxon green, covers for
same, 1 mahogany Pembroke table, dogs, shovel, tongs and fender."
It is also a matter of interest to see of what books a library
consisted among people who were considered to have a literary bent and
to be extensive readers. There is nothing "light" about it, and would
to-day be accounted very dull reading.
Batavia Illustrated
London Magazine, 7 vols.
Parkinson's Herbal
Knoll's History of the Turkish Empire
Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England, 3 vol.
England's Recovery
Laws of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
Laws of Merchants
Laws of Virginia
Complete Clerk and Conveyancer
Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown
Gunnel's Offences of the Realm of England
Ainsworth's English and Latin Dictionary
Haine's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Blackmore's Prince Arthur
History of the Twelve Cæsars by Suetonius
John Calvin's Institution of Religion
Fuller's Church History from its Rise
Locke on the Human Understanding
Hughes's Natural History of Barbadoes
A New Body of Geography
Croope's Law Reports
Heylin's Cosmography, in 4 vols.
Collection of Voyages and Travels
Political Discourses by Henry, Earl of Monmouth
Wooten's State of Christendom
Hobart's Law Reports
Johnson's Excellency or Monarchical Government
Latin and French Dictionary
Langley's Pomona, or Gardening
A Political Piece
Strada's History of the Low Country Wars
Spanish and English Dictionary
Latin Bible
A Poem on Death
Judgement & Hell
Knox's Martyrology
Jacob's Law Dictionary
Chamberlayne's Great Britain
Laws of His Majesty's Plantations.
[Illustration: Figure 55. BED AT SOMERVILLE, N. J.]
A bed showing better the handsome solid posts is given in Figure 55.
This is also associated with the Father of his Country, for it is in
the house at Somerville, N. J., occupied by him as headquarters
during one of his campaigns in the Revolutionary War.
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