Samuel Fiske (1769-1797)
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Samuel Fiske worked as a cabinetmaker in Dorchester with Stephen Badlam. Fiske had his own shop in Salem, probably beginning in the 1780s, and was in Boston on Washington Street by the 1790s. Known items include a Hepplewhite mahogany card table signed in chalk, "S. Fisk/Cabinate Maker/Bofton" and Hepplewhite shield-back side chairs branded "S.F."(Source: William C. Ketchum, Jr., American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940)