• Serial No: 293
• Herreshoff Marine Museum, America's Cup Hall of Fame,Bristol, RI
• Makers: Jonas Chickering, James Stewart, Boston MA
• Action: .
• Stops:
• Range: FF-c⁴ (5 and 1/2 Octaves) 68 Keys
• Stringing:
• Framing: Wood.
• Case:
• Height: ; Width: ; Depth:
• Brass Nameplaque: Patent, Stewart and Chickering, makers, Tremont Street, Boston
• Original Purchase: Dec. 18, 1823; Capt. Joseph Lewis
• Other Information: Capt. Joseph Lewis was from Boston. His daughter was married to Charles F. Herreshoff and they settled in Bristol,RI. A portrait of Capt. Lewis hangs in the Herreshoff family home (built in 1800). This home was bequeathed to the Herreshoff Marine Museum by Norman F. Herreshoff when he died in the summer of 1990. The Chickering piano is still in this home.
• Information Source: Carlton J. Pinheiro, Curator, Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, RI; Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cynthia Adams Hoover, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.