In the 1805 Boston directory Lemuel Churchill is listed as a cabinet and chairmaker working at 26 Orange Street; he is known to have continued working until circa 1828. A labelled lolling-chair in the Winterthur Collection is similar to the chair above in its concave, flaring back, splayed rear legs, and lines of beading that run up each of its front legs to form an arch at the top of each arm support. See Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), pp. 162-163; Patricia E. Kane, Three-Hundred Years of American Seating Furniture (Boston, 1976), p. 226.