Crisp and fine. 10 1/8 inches long. Skewed iron 100% original. A beautiful plane made by Cesar Chelor (born 1720 in Wrentham MA), a slave owned by the earliest American plane maker, Francis Nicholson. He was freed in Nicholson's will of 1753, in which he was also given some of Nicholson's tools and workbench. He married Judith Russell in 1758, and they raised nine children. He died at home in Wrentham in 1784
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Crisp and fine. 10 1/8 inches long. Skewed iron 100% original. A beautiful plane made by Cesar Chelor (born 1720 in Wrentham MA), a slave owned by the earliest American plane maker, Francis Nicholson. He was freed in Nicholson's will of 1753, in which he was also given some of Nicholson's tools and workbench. He married Judith Russell in 1758, and they raised nine children. He died at home in Wrentham in 1784