Nosing Plane
Dateca.1770-1790
Maker
Eells (or Ellis) Damon
1758 - 1805
MediumCherry, hickory, iron, and steel
DimensionsLength: 9 3/8"; width: 1 3/4"
Credit LineGift of Thomas Elliott
Object number2024-269
DescriptionNosing plane with flat chamfers which end with a turn-out and a molded shoulder.Label TextHousewright Eells (sometimes Ellis) Damon answered his country's call and signed up for military service shortly after Christmas, 1775. He is recorded as a Private in Capt. Joseph Clift's Company of Col. Josiah Whitney's militia regiment, and credited with one month, nineteen days service, for participating in the fight for Rhode Island during Summer of 1778. Damon was then discharged from service on September 13, 1778.Eells' life was cut short at only forty seven, when he drowned near Boon's Island, Maine, as recorded on his tombstone in Hanover Center Cemetery in Hanover, Massachusetts.Mark(s)E•DAMON in relief within a serrated rectangle, is struck into the toe (Elliott, GAWP 5th ed., p.97). Toe also marked with later owner's name H.BASSETT., incuse.
