Description:
Bedstead with four posts, possibly made by Daniel Clay (1770-1848). This bedstead and bureau (2004.44.1) were probably wedding gifts to Betsey Dole (1794-1862) of Shelburne, Massachusetts, daughter of Captain Parker Dole (1764-1834) and Anna Trowbridge Dole, when she married Ashley Hubbard (1793-1861) of Sunderland, Massachusetts, in 1822. The couple lived in the Hubbard family homestead in present-day Sunderland, which was built by Ashley's grandfather, Israel Hubbard (1725-1817) in 1763. Israel, his son, Caleb Hubbard (1754-1850), and Ashley successively operated the homestead as a tavern and inn until 1839. See 89.010, 89.011, and 89.044 for oil portraits of Ashley, Betsey, and Caleb painted by Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900) in the winter of 1836-1837, and a later portrait of Betsey (89.046). Both the bureau and bedstead remained in the Hubbard homestead until HD acquired them in 2004.
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