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Leather trunk with brass buttons c.1790.
This chest came from the United States with the flood of British Loyalists and other groups such as the Pennsylvania Germans who settled in Missisquoi Bay (Philipsburg) after the American Revolution. It was the property of Jacob Burley (1761-1841) of St. Armand, Quebec. (Missisquoi Historical Society Collections)
This chest came from the United States with the flood of British Loyalists and other groups such as the Pennsylvania Germans who settled in Missisquoi Bay (Philipsburg) after the American Revolution. It was the property of Jacob Burley (1761-1841) of St. Armand, Quebec. (Missisquoi Historical Society Collections)