Thomas Cotton Hayward
A brief biography of Thomas Cotton Hayward is offered by William C. Ketchum, Jr., in American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940. Ketchum wrote: “The Charlestown, Massachusetts, turner Thomas Cotton Hayward (working c. 1790-1820) placed his brand T.C. HAYWARD beneath the seat of a wide variety of Windsor chairs, including continuous-arm chairs, bow-back side chairs, and a low-back, writing-arm chair. He may also have produced fancy chairs, as his advertisement in the New England Palladium for July 11, 1817, illustrates one of those. No marked examples [of fancy chairs] are known.”