Description:
Tilt-top table with a circular top over a bird cage with baluster turnings, heavily turned support, and tripod base ending in raised pad feet. The finish (varnish) is damaged (sticky). According to family tradition, the table was made by Moses Stebbins (1803-1880) who lived at Sugarloaf. A note in the file states: "Received by the donor from the estate of her late sister, Eunice Haskins Van Woert, pieces of antique American furniture originating from the family of Moses Stebbins of Deerfield. The tilt-top table, Mrs. Brown believes, came to Mrs. Van Woert from Maud Stebbins McClure, granddaughter of Moses Stebbins. Mrs. McClure's mother resided in Southbury, Connecticut, and the table may originally have come from Deerfield." Eunice Haskins Van Woert's great-grandparents were Dwight Jewett (b. 1812) and Emma W. Orcutt, who moved from Mill River to the top of Sugarloaf. Their daughter, Lucretia Dwight (b.1842), married William Henry Harrison Stebbins (b. 1840), the son of Moses Stebbins (1803-1880) and Laura Fosdick who married in 1831; and their only daughter Harriet Stebbins (b. 1870) married Edward W. Haskins (b. 1867) and was the mother of Eunice Haskins (b. 1895). Maud Stebbins McClure (b. 1871) was the daughter of John Ashmun Stebbins (1846-1872) and Fanny Burrett (d. 1875) who married in 1870. John Ashmun Stebbins was the brother of William Henry Harrison Stebbins, and William adopted his niece, Maud, after her parents' death.
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