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The house, a two and a half story gabled roofed half-a-house, stands on the First Division of Quaker lands. |
| This area of the point became known as the "Furniture Makers' Center" since the workshops of the Townsends and Goddards, cabinet makers, were all about. They made mahogany desks, chests of drawers and chairs for wealthy Newport merchants and exported their furniture to Charleston and the West Indies as well. |
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So many Quakers settled in Newport that in time, almost half the town's populations belonged to the Society of Friends. In 1794, George and Hannah Brown of South Kingston, R.I. sold to Josiah Boss, BOAT BUILDER, "a certain messuage or dwelling house, and three lots of land together with three shops for 800 Spanish milled dollars." The boxed cornices and other details suggest that the house might have been standing in 1824 when Elliott Boss a merchant, inherited it. |