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Figure 7. The table shown in this
bedroom is almost certainly the one described in Philo Beardsley's inventory of 1826 (now
in the Kent town records) as "one cherry table, $3.50." On it is scrimshaw from
the Conklins' extensive collection. The early nineteenth-century Nantucket-lightship
basket bears the label of Davis Hall, one of the first known makers of these baskets. The
windsor armchair of c. 1805 is branded by Amos Haggett of Charlestown Massachusetts. The
paneling was probably installed in the room after Philo Beardsley's day. |