The first record of Vose as an independent cabinetmaker is in the records of the Hollis Street Church in the South End neighborhood of Boston ( fig. A second possibility is William Wadsworth, a Milton cabinetmaker and probably VoseвЂ™s older stepbrother. 6 Vose maintained extensive ties throughout his life with the extended Bemis clan and other merchants and mill owners in Watertown. One possible master is cabinetmaker Nathaniel Bemis of Watertown, oldest brother of VoseвЂ™s future wife, Mary Bemis.

5 Presumably, Isaac was bound as apprentice cabinetmaker around age fourteen. His father then remarried, to the widow Katherine (Bullard) Wadsworth, and moved to her former husbandвЂ™s farm in the southern part of Milton. 4 IsaacвЂ™s earliest years were spent at his fatherвЂ™s inn, the Rising Sun, close to the Neponset River and the various mills at Milton Falls the river divided the northern end of Milton from Dorchester. He was a sixth-generation descendant of Robert Vose (Vause), who had migrated to Milton from England sometime between 16. Isaac was born to Samuel Vose (1730вЂ“1804) and his wife, Sarah (nГ©e Kenney) (1732вЂ“1777), of nearby Stoughton. The most talented prospered when men like Brooks, and their fashion-conscious wives, met their perceived obligations to purchase and display the latest styles. He was among the many artisans drawn by increasing opportunities to move to New EnglandвЂ™s capital city from outlying areas. Isaac Vose was born the same year as Brooks, 1767, in Milton, also a small rural town, located ten miles south of Boston. 3 Over his long life, Brooks developed relationships with these prominent artisans and patronized some of them with unusual loyalty for decades, including cabinetmaker Isaac Vose, who would establish one of BostonвЂ™s leading furniture firms in the early nineteenth century. These included Samuel McIntire for interior carving, decorative plaster worker Daniel Reynard, clockmaker Simon Willard, upholsterer James H. Photo, David Bohl.Д«rooks and many other prosperous Bostonians fulfilled this duty by hiring leading Massachusetts craftsmen. National Park Service, Adams National Historical Park (ADAM 51.9). West, probably Boston, 1852, painted posthumously after an unidentified daguerreotype. Peter Chardon Brooks (1767вЂ“1849), William W. 1 He considered it his вЂњdutyвЂќ to spend a substantial part of his wealth on вЂњinnocent and rational enjoyments,вЂќ including the furnishing of his town and country houses. Starting with no taxable assets in 1789, Brooks became a millionaire by the time he was fifty, making him among BostonвЂ™s richest men. The resulting vacuum provided young men like him with unparalleled opportunities to create a new order-and spectacular new wealth.

But Brooks entered a vastly changed town whose economic, political, and social structure had been overthrown by the expulsion of the old Loyalist elite. He arrived with less than one dollar in his pocket at the end of the Revolutionary War, when economic prospects were poor. I n 1782, sixteen-year-old Peter Chardon Brooks (1767вЂ“1849) from rural Medford, Massachusetts, journeyed the five miles south to Boston to begin an apprenticeship as a marine insurance broker ( fig.

Classical Excellence in Boston: The Furniture of Isaac Vose, 1789вЂ“1825.

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