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3. Embroidery of the Saltonstall Seat by Anna Saltonstall |
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Silk, 1807. This embroidery depicts the original "Buttonwoods" as it was in 1807. This house was brick and used as a refuge by the surrounding villagers during Indian Raids in the mid 1600s and early 1700s. After being abandoned by Sheriff Richard Saltonstall, a loyalist supporter of British King George III, in 1774, the house and lands were forfeit to the newly formed United States. The land and home were purchased in 1812 by James Duncan who razed the house and built a new rural Federal Style house as a wedding gift for his son Samuel White Duncan and Mary W. Duncan in 1814. This new house is the current Buttonwoods Museum. |
