A mid 18th Century Philadelphia Chippendale design carved mahogany dining chair:, the back with serpentine top rail decorated with scallop shells and foliage, the central pierced vase splat with flowerheads and a tassel hung in drapery swag, the upholstered slip in seat on cabriole legs headed with acanthus and terminating in claw and ball feet.*Provenance. This chair is said to have stood in the dining room of James Henderson's house in New York. Henderson was a surgeon gifted land by King George II in 1739 for his services to the Crown. Henderson chose land in America rather than Britain and named his home after the hospital he worked in in Greenwich, so Greenwich House. It was in the area then known by the Dutch name as Groenwijck (meaning 'green district'), but over time the area became increasingly known as Greenwich Village as it is today.As Henderson died in 1743, the chair would have belonged to his daughter Elizabeth and son in law Captain Peter Corne and passed down to the current owner via their granddaughter Betsy Mary Douglas, who married James B. Monroe (1799 - 1870), the nephew of President James Monroe. Betsy Mary and James Monroe's daughter Fanny, married a Douglas Robinson and their daughter Harriet, was the Great Grandmother of the current owner.A Chippendale style chair attributed to Thomas Affleck is housed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.