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359 A P P E N D I X F Citations of interior painting, 1656–1817  When the coloring date is unknown, the date of the meetinghouse is given and indicated with an asterisk (*). Abington, Conn. 1802. Pulpit and architraves painted a mustard color; red paint on interior woodwork; trompe l’oeil window lights. Amesbury, Mass. (West Salisbury, Rocky Hill) (survival). 1784.* Whitish green; pillars and pulpit window marbleized with blue. Andover (South or Second Parish). 1793. Bentley: Inscribed over the pulpit, “Holiness becomes thy house O Lord, Forever”; “I. H. S.” painted on the front of the pulpit. Arlington, Mass. 1775. In 1813 Bentley remembered that during the British occupation of Boston the pulpit of the first meetinghouse was painted “of a chocolate colour.” Arlington, Mass. 1795. Voted to paint “the inside a stone color.” Barkhamsted, Conn. 1784.* Pulpit and gallery front blue or lead colored paint. Barnstead Parade, N.H. 1799. “The sounding board was like the pulpit, a clay color.” Bedford, N.H. 1767. Paint pulpit “the same color as Rev. Mr. McGregor’s pulpit is, in Londonderry.” Berlin, Mass. Circa 1787. Pineapple finial, probably from 1787 pulpit, repainted green and gold in 1955. Beverly, Mass. 1770.* Stair baluster painted gray-white. Bluehill, Maine. 1798. “Voted, that the Pulpit pillars, posts and front of the Gallery be painted.” Boston (King’s Chapel). 1713. “Voted that the Pillers, Capitalls, and Cornish of the Church be painted wainscott Colur.” Boston (Christ Church). 1727. Ropes painted “supporting the brass branches or chandeliers, — ‘prussian blue picked in with vermillion’”; cherubs’ heads and “fusthoons” on the panels; “painting and gilding of the tables of the law.” Boston (Christ Church). 1736. Backdrop of the organ loft “bright red,” gilding. Bradford, Mass. 1793. Bentley: gold lettering over the pulpit, “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Branford, Conn. 1746. “Coulering ye inside of ye meeting house.” Branford, Conn. 1797. Painted or whitewashed inside and out. Bridgewater, Mass. (South Parish). 1773. Voted to paint “the canopy, pulpit, the front work of the galleries, the pillars under the galleries, the posts and braces.” Brooklyn, Conn. 1772. Voted “to leave it with the Society and Building Committees, with the Painter to ditermine what colour the insid of the Meeting-house and Pulpit shall be.” Burrillville, R.I. 1770?* Probably painted in early nineteenth century. Above the pulpit “a painting representing cherubim, but a most rude and shabby daub.” Chatham, Mass. 1773. “The Pulpit and frunt of the Gallers and the Sids all with Stone Couller.” Chelmsford, Mass. 1793. Bentley: pulpit and gallery fronts painted, gilding below pulpit panels in “chinese work.” Concord, Mass. Circa 1744. Flame finial, painted gold and red with a blue base from the sounding board of the 1711 meetinghouse. Deerfield, Mass. 1729.* Pulpit and canopy painted “a dark olive-green.” Dorchester, Mass. Circa 1750. Finial probably from the 1743 meetinghouse, painted gray. East Hampton, L.I. 1756. Molding with vine-and-grape motif and carved pilaster capital painted with red, black, yellow, and green colors from the 1756 pulpit. Fairfield, Conn. 1785. Pulpit painted “light stone color.” Gilead, Conn. 1761. Pulpit, breastwork, canopy, pillars “light red slightly striped with white.” Gilsum, N.H. 1791. “Inside to Be a Stone Gray only the Canopy to Be a Prussian Blue.” Greenwich, Conn. (Second Parish). 1716.* Pulpit “bluish color.” Hadley, Mass. 1739. “color the facing of the gallery”; “M. R. H.” [March] 1739” on the canopy. Hanover, N.H. 1794. Voted, “so much of the inside as is usual to be painted in well finished meeting houses.” Harpswell, Maine. 1757.* Dark green pulpit said to be original color. Harwich, Mass. (Second or South). 1792.* Recollection: Pulpit and desk “rich sea green”; deacons’ seat “Dark Spanish Brown.” Hatfield, Mass. 1755. Casings of timbers in the meetinghouse to be “decently colored.” Hatfield, Mass. 1750.* Possibly painted after 1779 or 1793; building survived until 1982. Canopy and probably the pulpit: robin’s egg blue. Haverhill, Mass. 1734.* Nineteenth-century reminiscence: Faces of two cherubs (one with blue eyes, the other with brown) painted on either side of the pulpit window. Henniker, N.H. 1787.* Gilt acorn finial from the sounding board. Hingham, Mass. 1682. Joshua Lincoln (1645–1694) paid for “Collering the the casements and other wood-work.” Hingham, Mass. (Old Ship). Circa 1720 to 1730. Red sponge painting on whitewashed posts. Holliston, Mass. 1787. The inside to be a “stone color.” Holland, Mass. 1794. “brest work pillers and Pulpit, to be coulloured...

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