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The clock was made by Thomas Wagstaff of London and brought to Salem by John Holme about 1770. During the Revolution, the British took the clock to their New York headquarters, and it was not returned until Col. Benjamin Holme brought it back in an oxcart in 1783. The museum is in the Alexander Grant House at 79-83 Market Street. It and the adjoining houses were built in the 1720's. The famous Salem oak is just around the corner on Broadway. Under this oak, the story goes, John Fenwick, a Quaker, made peace with the local Indians after receiving a land grant from King Charles II of England in 1675. The exterior of the Grant House is red and salt-glaze blue brick. The house was restored in the 1950's with paneling, doors and windows saved from other old Salem County homes. Twenty rooms are filled with furniture and accessories that date from South Jersey's Colonial times to the 1840's. Oil paintings in the house include portraits of Anna Keasbey Hannah and her sister, Artemesia Keasbey.

They were painted in the first half of the 19th century by a local artist, George Washington Conarroe. Conarroe began as a painter of fancy chairs and, despite having no formal training, eventually painted members of many of Philadelphia's wealthy families. Upstairs, four furnished bedrooms are on view. One room has a fine collection of dolls, toys, children's chairs, doll carriages and miniatures. There also are clothes from the town's earlier days, including attire for a proper Quaker lady in somber shades of gray and brown. Another room has a case filled with early South Jersey glass. Included are a hand-blown sugar bowl attributed to the Wistarberg glassworks of Caspar Wistar. Founded in Salem County in 1739, it was the first glassworks established in the United States. In another upstairs room is a collection of chairs made in the Delaware Valley. One is a ladder-back rocking chair in worn black paint whose heavy rockers are shaped like a cabbage chopper. This piece dates to the early 1800's and is believed to have been made by a second-generation member of the Ware family.

Beginning with Maskell Ware about 1780, generations of Ware men made rush-seated, ladder-back chairs in Salem and Cumberland Counties until 1940. In the Historical Society's office stands the desk of the first Salem postmaster. It dates to 1791, is 46 inches high and is in a plain Shaker-like style. The desk has a slanted lift-top with two doors below, and is painted in simulated tiger maple graining. The museum is open from noon to 4 P.M., Monday through Friday. There is a charge of $1.50 for adults and 25 cents for students. The telephone number is (609) 935-5004. About two and a half miles north, toward Pennsville on Route 49, is a shop called One of a Kind Antiques. The owner, Thomas Smith, sells country furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Much of the furniture is of local origin. For example, Mr. Smith recently had an unusually good selection of Windsor, Delaware Valley and Ware chairs. A small Ware sewing rocker in old dark paint was priced at $225.

Mr. Smith believes that it was made at the turn of the current century by a third-generation Ware. The rocker had four curved and shaped ladders, three sets of ring cuts on the front rail and an ovoid-shaped back post finial with a small pimple atop. Such characteristics help to define a Ware chair. ''You get to know the configuration of a Ware chair,'' Mr. Smith said. ''For instance, I've found that the ladders decrease by exactly three-eighths of an inch from bottom to top.'' For $385, Mr. Smith had a child's rocker that he thought was made by Maskell Ware in the 1700's. It was 30 inches high, made of tiger maple and had the bulbous or pear-shaped front-rail turnings for which Maskell Ware was known. The top finials had been blunted with use, the cabbage-chopper rockers were flattened with age and the newer rush seat was referred to as ''seaweed'' by Mr. Smith. Four small side chairs were $685 for the set. Mr. Smith said these were made by a second-generation Ware around 1840-50.

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