Description:
Chair table with a pine top and maple base painted red with black on the turnings, which purportedly descended in the Abercrombie family of Deerfield. In 1742, Robert Abercrombie (1712-1786) emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Pelham, Massachusetts; he and his wife, Margaret Stevenson Abercrombie (d. 1765), had 10 children; their son, Isaac Abercrombie (1759-1847) married Martha McCullough (1768-1837) in 1790, and they moved from Pelham to the Cheapside section of Deerfield (now in Greenfield) about 1830. A chair table was listed in a Watertown, Massachusetts, inventory in 1644; they were convenient and space saving, since they could be easily moved and used either as a chair or table. When in use as a table, the wide overhang of the circular top allowed the sitter to sit close without hitting the base. Chair and hutch (or box) tables were made in New England into the Victorian period although those later examples often appear to be earlier.
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