Description:
One of a set of six Queen Anne side chairs in walnut with needlework slip seats in cross-stitch and surface embroidery, which were made by Jane Brown (b. 1743) of Boston. Jane also made a needlepoint coat-of-arms of the Brown family with the inscription, "Jane Brown Age 15 1758." In 1766, Jane married John Guliker (1738-1789) of Boston, a sea captain. Born in England, John Guliker emigrated to Boston. There is a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Loammi Baldwin to George Washington, dated November 3, 1775, which reads: "Two Gentle men Came to my Quarters Last night about 10 oClock who had Just Escaped from Boston, one of them namely John Guliker a Master of a Vessel & lately taken by the Nautiluss Man of War & brought into Boston, being formerly acquanted with him & always found him a man of Honour & taking him to be a friend to this Country his wife being moved out of Boston to Salem I suffered him to proceed to Salem without Sendng him to Head Qartrs..." Guliker served in the Revolutionary War, when he was taken prisoner on the privateer, "Tartar" and confined in Halifax until exchanged in 1777. He commanded the privateers, "Congress" and "Favorite" in 1778. Four of the Guliker children died in infancy between 1770-1774 and are buried on Copp's Hill in Boston. In 1796, John and Jane's daughter, Jane Guliker, married Stephen Barnard, the son of Joel Barnard (b. 1732) who married Lucy Stevens in 1756, and uncle of Mr. Albert B. Root. Stephen and Jane Barnard moved to Mexico, Maine about 1800, where the chairs descended in the Guliker-Barnard-Root families until bought by Mr. J. Grossman through Albert B. Root, a cousin.
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