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CONNECTICUT TERCENTENARY BULLETIN No State of Connecticut Tercentenary Commission 1635-1935 Hartford, Conn. CONNECTICUT TERCENTENARY BULLETIN No. 10 June 17, 1935 TERCENTENARY FURNITURE A visitor to the exhibit, entering the west end of the Tapestry Hall, will find in the first section transition pieces, EXHIBITION OPENS AT corner cuboards, tip tables and highboys made of pine, MORGAN MEMORIAL cherry and maple. The first alcove, or room in the center partitioning of the Hall, finished in pink, holds a collection of Queen Anne period pieces. The second room, painted a One thousand and one pieces of the furniture and the buff color, is given over to furniture showing the transition furnishings which were part of the domestic life of Con- from European influence to the characteristic American necticut in Colonial times and the days of early statehood "Block Front" design, including some Hepplewhite. are now on display at the Morgan Memorial in Hartford The third, or green alcove, holds examples of the work forming one of the most complete ex- of Aaron Chapin, including highboys. hibitions of this character ever arranged. The last of the center partitions, done Selected from the wealth of material in a shade of yellow, shows late pieces, the people of Connecticut have pre- high-top and low desks, and a drop served of the fine things of their an- leaf table set with four chairs. cestors every article is a "museum Along the side platforms are arranged, piece". Almost any one or any group spaced as nearly as possible to coincide of the many period-collections is worthy with the period grouping in the center of a special showing. Few pieces made rooms. Several tip-top tables are in- after 1800 are included. cluded with high- and lowboys, chest-on- So extensive is the exhibition that chests, and chairs along the south side; both the Lecture Hall and the Tapestry while on the walls are mirrors and Hall, with the rooms opening from it, paintings. have been utilized and there has been Through this south wall open four overflow into the entrance halls. rooms. The first is given over to a Particular attention has been given showing of pottery and china. The to arrangement by groups to secure second contains eight clocks, showing showings characteristic of each early the development of Connecticut clock Connecticut maker and each period making. The third is fitted as a bed- represented. For example, prominent in room. Most of the furniture about the great canopy bed that dominates the the collection is a group of many of the The famous "Winthrop Chair", made finest pieces of the work of Nicholas by the first of Connecticut's long line setting is inlaid work. Block front chest- of distinguished cabinet makers, Nicho- on-chests, one, two and three drawer Disbrowe, cabinet maker, who was a las Disbrowe of Hartford, for the resident of Hartford as" early as the Colony's first Governor, John Winthrop, lowboys, are on exhibit in the fourth the Younger. This chair, from the per- room, where also is shown a particu- year of the Pequot War of 1637. manent collection of Wesleyan Univer- Both main halls have been partitioned sity at Middletown, is included in the larly fine walnut gilded mirror. exhibit of Connecticut furniture on One room opens through the north into separate rooms to give the nearest show at the Morgan Memorial in representation possible of the original Hartford. wall of the Tapestry room and has been setting. The Tapestry Hall is fitted given over to a showing of Chippendale with a false ceiling of gauze. Running east and west down mirrors and miscellaneous pieces. the center of this Hall are four rooms open at the sides. Leaving the Tapestry Hall, in the exit section of which are shown several famous paintings, the visitor passes Along the walls, are platforms to give a footing for pieces through the east entrance hall of the Memorial, where the placed to correspond with the group of furniture in the lacquered work, odd pieces and many chairs, mostly 19th center partitions. This arrangement, with sections at the century, are shown, and enters the Lecture Hall. west entrance, too, and east exit from the Hall, allows the Here are on display the Disbrowe pieces, other older work showing of six groups of furniture. Each of the sections in the Jacobean tradition in pine and oak, and painted has been painted in pastel shades, a background rather chests. To the right as one enters, hangs the famous Stuart modern in its simplicity. portrait of the Earl of Warwick. Page 2 Connecticut Tercentenary Bulletin INTERESTING EXHIBITS OFFERED AT YALE Finally, this section closes with a group of books and proclama- tions by Governor Jonathan Trumbull in 1783 relating to Connecti- TO TERCENTENARY VISITORS cut's claims in the Susquehanna case. The opposing view is repre- sented by the anonymous "Examination of the Connecticut Claim to Extensive exhibitions of unusually interesting historical material Lands in Pennsylvania," 1774, the work of William Smith, Provost have been placed on display in the Sterling Memorial Library, the of the University of Pennsylvania. Yale Gallery of Fine Arts and in the Library of the Yale Law School in connection with Connecticut's Tercentenary. These exhibitions are The name Connecticut is the same as the name of the Indians open to the public and it is expected that thousands of Connecticut dwelling on its banks, and it would be impossible to reconstruct the people and out-of-state visitors will attend during the summer and narrative of Connecticut without some mention of the manuscripts fall. and early printed material existing to remind us of the powerful influence of the Indians upon the early settlers. The Yale exhibition One of the largest groups of the Tercentenary Exhibition in the includes among its original manuscripts the petition of Joseph John- Yale Library shows Connecticut in Colonial times, illustrated by son, an Indian of the Mohegan tribe, to the students of Yale College documents, maps and books, from the earliest times to the end of asking for aid in sending his brother Indians westward; a leaf from the Revolution. Considerable stress has been laid on tracts published the diary of David Brainerd, a missionary to the Indians; seven in England relating to the economic status of the Northern colonies, early Indian deeds relating to Branford; and the innumerable notes and Connecticut in particular. There are also two remarkable collec- and statistics collected by Ezra Stiles from widely varying sources tions of family papers—the Wyllys papers and the Winthrop papers. concerning the Indians of Connecticut, including the important fragment of Pequot vocabulary. Chronologically, this part of the exhibition opens with a group of maps and atlases showing America before the settlement of Outstanding in the exhibition are a few early documents. A Connecticut. From the Ptolomy and Ortelius maps of the early study of these documents will well repay one for in no other way sixteenth century down to histories of American discovery and ex- is the spirit of the past brought so close to one's experience. The ploration in the early seventeenth century. Thus, through a long most important document displayed is a volume of early tax records series of maps, Connecticut's geographical outline may be studied of New Haven Colony. Among other documents is the record kept from those early maps on which New England is represented as by Jared Ingersoll as Justice of the Peace in New Haven, soon to almost an extension of Virginia to a beautiful copy of the Moses be published. These volumes evoke a picture of the social condition Park map of Connecticut, published in England in 1766, the first of the time. The book is opened to show a series of cases of New separate map of Connecticut. Haven citizens brought before him as justice of the peace, for failure to attend divine service. One volume of his personal accounts is Among the earlier books which are exhibited to show the back- opened to show his accounts for the lottery for completing the ground of the colony of Connecticut, special notice should be given wharf at Ferry Point in New Haven in 1754. to the accounts of voyages compiled by Peter Martyr, Richard Hakluyt, Samuel Purchas and Theodore de Bry. The section of the exhibition which deals with the part played The second section of the books in the exhibition room show many by women in Colonial Connecticut presents original manuscript volumes dealing with the history of Connecticut in the middle of journals, letters and account books. Of especial interest are five the seventeenth century. Along with illustrative maps there are letters written (1659-1675) by Mrs. Hannah Eaton Winthrop, Jr., several kinds of interesting books including the early publications by for advice in treating the illnesses of her family and friends; and John Cotton, John Eliot, Increase and Richard Mather, and Henry the manuscript journal of Mrs. Esther (Edwards) Burr. Also in- Whitfield. William Hubbard's "Narrative of the Troubles with the cluded are a collection of hymns written about 1740 in the hand of Indians in New England," Boston, 1677, has been generally con- the poetess, Elizabeth (Scott) Williams, and letters written by Mary sidered the earliest American classic, both for its excellent dramatic (Fish) Silliman during the Revolutionary War. style and its almost universal diffusion among the people. Business in Colonial times is an almost unexplored field of study. Yale is especially fortunate in possessing all three proclamations As many business documents as possible have been assembled to relating to the Regicides. These are on view together with Ezra Stiles' illustrate this phase of life.
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