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CHAIRS 
tory of Hannah Hodge, widow, of Philadelphia, taken 
the 7th day of July, 1736. This is the earliest date 
for the Windsor chair that we have yet discovered. 
We also find in the inventory of Governor Patrick 
Gordon, of Philadelphia, the item, " Five Windsor 
Chairs @ 1I/6, /"2. 17. 6." The inventory is not 
dated, but he died August 5, 1736, and his will was 
proved August I7, 1736. After 1736 Windsor chairs 
are occasionally met with in the Philadelphia inven- 
tories, one, and sometimes two, in an estate, till we 
reach the inventory, dated March 5, 1757, of Lloyd 
Zachary, " Practitioner in Physick," in Philadelphia, 
who had "in the Parlor," "at the Plantation," "Ten
Windsor Arm Chairs." On Thursday, June 21, 
1764, " a parcel of Windsor chairs" is mentioned in 
a list of household furniture advertised for sale in 
"The Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser." 
From these two facts- that in 1757 ten Windsor 
chairs were found in one estate, and that in 1764 "a 
parcel of Windsor chairs" was to be sold at public 
auction - it is evident that these chairs had become 
sufficiently numerous in Philadelphia to be at least 
well known, if not common. 
The following advertisement with a cut of a Wind- 
sor chair appears in "The New-York Gazette, or The 
Weekly Post-Boy," April 18, 1765: - 
"To be Sold By Andrew Gauteir, In Princes-Street, Opposite 
Mr. David Provoost's in Broadstreet; A Large and neat Assort-