Description:
Black wool trousers with a vertical fly front with six buttons inscribed "Armstrong & Strout / Boston" (listed in the 1918 Boston business directory at 73 Tremont St.); six buttons for suspenders; and black silk cord on the outseams, which was bought at the auction of Barnard family belongings in 1968, at the Francis Barnard barn in the Patten Hill district of Shelburne, Massachusetts. The property had been in the Barnard family since 1790 when Elisha Barnard (1763-1845), the son of John Barnard (1713-1785) and Ruth Catlin Barnard (1721/2-1785), originally of Deerfield, moved to Shelburne during the Revolution and built the house. The property descended through the family to their son, Elisha Barnard (1807-1886); then Francis Edward Barnard (1836-1889); to David Barnard (1874-1961); and then to Francis Barnard (1898-1988) who sold the property in 1968.
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