Description:
Chest-on-chest in cherry that descended in the Barnard/Frary families. There is a piece of paper pasted on the bottom side of the narrow central drawer: "Chest on Chest./This cherry chest on chest/was the property of my/great grandfather/Elisha Barnard of Shelburne/Mass. He entered the/Revolutionary War when only/sixteen yrs. old, just before/the close of the war. I joined the D.A.R. through/his record. This chest was given/to my grandmother/Naomi Barnard Alvord. Then her son Elisha Barnard/Alvord had it. Then his/son Herbert L. Alvord and/at his death without heirs/? myself, it ? [Eliza] ?vor? [Alvord] Frary/ Charlemont, Mass./Sept. 3 1927/? final trimmings." Elisha Barnard (1763-1845), son of John Barnard (1713-17850 and Ruth Catlin (1721/22-1785) of Deerfield who moved to Shelburne, married Naomi Chandler (1768-1796) in 1790; none of their three children survived. Elisha then had seven children with his second wife, Prudence Hunt (1767-1830), and his eldest daughter, Naomi (1798-1870) married Adolphus (Rodolphus) Alvord (1792-1852) of Shelburne in 1820. Their son, Elisha Barnard Alvord (1826-1897) married Susan Edwards Hawks (1830-1875) of Charlemont in 1859, and their only child, Herbert Lincoln Alvord (b.1865) of Shelburne died unmarried. According to the donor, either the daughter or grandaugher of Adolphus and Naomi Alvord married a Frary, from whom the donor is descended. This was probably the duahgter of Adolphus' daughter, Prudence Hunt Alvord (1831-1901) who married Joseph Drury Newton (b.1829) of Greenfield in 1853. The flat-top upper case has a simple cover cornice molding, over five graduated drawers; the lower case has a band of molding around the top edge into which the upper case fits, over four graduated drawers and slightly elongated bracket feet; the sides are plain. The brasses are in the original holes but may not be original.
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