The "Brewster Chair" was named after
William Brewster, one of the
Pilgrim fathers who landed in
Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. In 1830, the Brewster family of Duxbury donated Elder Brewster's original chair to
Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, where it remains today. His chair was created in New England between 1630 and 1660 of American
white ash. Other similar New England chairs from the 17th century have been named after this piece. In the 1970s, Rhode Island sculptor
Armand LaMontagne produced a notorious fake Brewster Chair that fooled the national experts at the
Henry Ford Museum, which acquired the piece. ==References==