PROBABLY VIRGINIA, CIRCA 1790

Details

THE YOUNG FAMILY FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
Probably Virginia, circa 1790
Drawer interior bears a handwritten label detailing the history of the table
29½ in. high, 19½ in. wide, 31 5/8 in. deep

Provenance

George (1755-1839) and Nancy Wade (Hampton) Young (1755-1844), Virginia and Georgia
George Hampton Young (1799-1880), Waverley Plantation, near Columbus, Mississippi, son
James Hamilton Young (1832-1899), son
Emmie Hubbard (Young) Evans (b. about 1866), daughter
Janice Evans Turnbull, 1925-1938, daughter
W.E. Martin, Chattanooga, Tennessee, by purchase from above in 1938

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Lot Essay

According to a note handwritten in 1938, the table was originally owned by George Young (1755-1839) and his wife, Nancy Wade Hampton (1755-1844) and descended to their great-great granddaughter, Janice Evans Turnbull, who sold it to W.E. Martin of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1938. The Youngs hailed from Virginia, he from Pittsylvania County and she from neighboring Halifax County. George Young served in the Revolutionary War and the couple married in Virginia in 1785. In all likelihood, the table was made in Virginia prior to the Youngs removal to Georgia. Their son, George Hampton Young (1799-1800) inherited the table and later moved to Mississippi, where he built a mansion, Waverley Plantation, in the 1850s (see ancestry.com, ID I8874).

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