Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . ls vert descrilies a grant of arms in1612. This is so simple as to suggest a much older origin than this Carter coat is argent on a chevron between three Catherine wheels,sable, as many cinquefoils oj the first. The base of the shield on the chest was left \oid of heraldic orna-mentation, perhaps to admit of the insertion of a date, and the
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . ls vert descrilies a grant of arms in1612. This is so simple as to suggest a much older origin than this Carter coat is argent on a chevron between three Catherine wheels,sable, as many cinquefoils oj the first. The base of the shield on the chest was left \oid of heraldic orna-mentation, perhaps to admit of the insertion of a date, and the date1684 is that of the death of the Rev. Thomas Carter. The letters originallycarved in the shield were undoubtedly J. C, the J being an I with a line W-2 (Ior^ocn^a across its inidilli. Ai a later date some person apparently atteni])ted tochange this ] to a P,— perliaps at tlie time tliat it came into tlie possessionof Pain Converse, who owned the Samuel Converse farm at his death. Alater hand has scratched an A, between the original letter and the chevron. Perhaps this chest is one of those three chests mentioned in Samuel Con-verses inventory,—see page 15. Lyon says of chests, they were in use from classical times. We find the. r The (oiivtTfle elust. chest during the midille ages the paiticular |)iece of liouseliold furnitureserving as a recejitacle for clothing, money, ])late, and other valuables. Theemigrants to New England brought many chests, they being the one article ofhousehold furniture easily stored, handled, and at the same time serving as apacking casr;; ne\ertlieless, most of the chests now in existcuice were probablyniad(^ in New iMigland, an<l tliere were from the earliest times carvers inIJoston, which renders it |)0ssil)le, if not probable, that this chest builtand carved to the order of the Rev. Thomas Carter, tlie minister at Woburn,with the inlenlion of giving it to his daughter as a wcnlding chest; and \i\)onhis death, it having come to the
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