Thankful Smead

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Thankful Smead Chest with Drawers

ca. 1695 Massachusetts
Oak and pine
Photographed at Huntington Library in San Marino, California while on loan from the Dietrich American Foundation in Philadelphia.

Known as a Hadley chest, these types of chests were produced in Connecticutt River valley towns in central New England near Hadley Massachusetts.

From the T. S. carved in its front, it is known this chest was made for Thankful Smead, born in Deerfield 1677 and died there with her husband 3 children in the 1704 Deerfield raid. This chest may have been presented to Thankful Smead around 1695 upon her marriage to John Hawks Jr.