Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from a Private Collection of a Founding Father of Rhode Island and our Country
The Founding Father Henry Marchant Family Important and Exceptionally Rare Pilgrim Century Joined and Turned Maple, Oak, and Pine Long Table, probably Newport, Rhode Island, Circa 1680
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January 24, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Property from a Private Collection of a Founding Father of Rhode Island and our Country
The Founding Father Henry Marchant Family Important and Exceptionally Rare Pilgrim Century Joined and Turned Maple, Oak, and Pine Long Table
probably Newport, Rhode Island
Circa 1680
Table retains its original brackets, turned wooden pulls, feet and top.
Height 27 1/4 in. by Width 62 5/8 in. by Depth 24 3/8 in.
This table descended directly in the family of Founding Father Henry Marchant (1741-1796).
Henry Marchant (1741-1796) m. Rebecca Cooke (1736-1819);
to son, William Marchant (1774-1857) m. Mary Babcock (1795-1860);
to son, William Marchant Jr. (1814-1886) m. Elizabeth Clarke (1819-1886);
to son, Frank Edward Marchant (1855-1927) m. Sarah Peckham Hoxsie Marchant (1852-1922);
to Frank E. Marchant’s older niece, Florence Clarke (1875-1958) m. Charles Samuel Prest (1875-1954);
to Frank E. Marchant’s younger niece, Alice Clarke (1876-1969), Cohoes, New York;
to Florence Clarke’s son, Edward C. Prest, Sr. (1914-1999) m. Alice Brunjes (1917-2013), Rockville Centre, New York;
thus by descent to the current consignors.