Jacob Allen (Manchester, MA and Elizabethtown, NY 1789-1852) an important historical archive of a North Shore, Massachusetts trained Elizabethtown, NY cabinetmaker- bills, reciepts, indentures, stampless covers with letters (100's of pieces), in a brass studded leather documentbox with the initials J A, includes descriptions of specific pieces sold to patrons from his formal cabinetshop ("a certain bureau that Judge Gould saw at my shop last fall"), including a Grecian diamond drawer bureau, 3 1st rate French bureaus, French bedsteads, full fall leaf tables, stands, washstands, etc spanning the years 1828-1850, with prices sold, repairs, selling furniture on consignment, debt notes payable on demand in cabinet ware in his shop, purchases of lumber, brasses, castors veneers, boiled oil,varnishes, etc. A fascinating look at cabinetmaking and history in the early Adirondacks.

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