Property from a Massachusetts Institution
The Highly Important Symon and Rebeckah Horne Pilgrim Century Valuables Cabinet, attributed to the Symonds shops, Salem, Massachusetts, dated 1677
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Description
red oak, black walnut, red cedar and ebonized maple
with caved date and initials 7 H 7 / S♥R
Retains its original wrought iron key. Together with a group of documents: one a period 19th century letter from David Ballard; another a typed provenance of the cabinet; and two index cards relating to its provenance. With two bags of spices, one cloves and the other cinnamon. Accession number written in pen: SRVHS68.19 6/3/68.
height 17 ¼ in. by width 17 in. by depth 9 ½ in.
43.8 cm by 43.2 cm by 24.1 cm
Symon Horne (1649-1687) m. Rebeckah Rea Stevens (1646–1740), Andover, Massachusetts;
Joseph Ballard I (1644-1722) m. Rebeckah Rea Stevens Horne (1646–1740), Andover, Massachusetts†;
to their son, Jeremiah Ballard (1697-1761) m. Mary Dane (1699-after 1769), Andover, Massachusetts and New Salem, Massachusetts;
to their son, Daniel Ballard (1728-1808) m. Ruth Houlton (1735-1817), Wendell, Massachusetts;
to their son, Josiah Ballard (1763-1837) m. Frances Jane Zuill (1768-1856), Wendell, Massachusetts;
[to their son, Daniel Ballard (1802-1870) m. Dulcenia Brown (1811-1897), Wendell, Massachusetts]‡;
acquired back into the family by their sons, Daniel J. Ballard (1840-1917), Albert Ballard (1846-1913), Lester Ballard (1852-1919);
to Miss Annie Frances Ballard (1877-1974), the daughter of Albert Ballard (1846-1913) and Mary Foote (b. 1852).
† this was Rebeckah’s third marriage.
‡ the cabinet passed out of the family about this point for approximately forty years and either likely in the possesion of a Zuill family descendant or Daniel Ballard II (1802-1870) relinquished it.