PROBABLY YARMOUTH AREA, MASSACHUSETTS, DATED 1813

In all likelihood, the name impressed on this pipe box refers to Peter Thacher (also spelled Thatcher), who appears in the 1800 and 1830 census records in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. However, two other individuals of the same name were living in the vicinity of either Yarmouth, Massachusetts or Yarmouth, Maine in the early nineteenth century. These were Peter Thatcher of Attleboro, Massachusetts (located about 75 miles from Yarmouth), who appears in the census records from 1800 through 1830 and Peter Thatcher of Gorham, Maine (located just under 20 miles from Yarmouth), who appears in the 1810 census.

As shown in a November 1927 photograph, this pipe box was displayed in "Museum [Room] No. I" (the XVII Century Room) in the attic of Blairhame (see p. ?, fig. 4).