Piedmont, North Carolina, circa 1800, signed "John Adams", likely Guilford County, single case construction with figured walnut, yellow pine and poplar secondary, the drawers flanked by fluted quarter columns, set on original ogee bracket feet, upper drawers with Quaker locks, back of second long door with inscription and signature reading "Back of the Second Drawer/John Adams", and in a later hand "Mary Saunders, Benbow/Dec 1811",˜78 x 45-1/4 x 23 in.Note: The MESDA craftsman index records John Adams active as a cabinetmaker in Guilford County, 1790-1798.Illustrated in Robert Leath's Friendly Furniture:˜The Quaker Cabinetmakers of Guilford County, North Carolina, 1775?1825˜in MESDA Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 2018, Figure 38., Provenance: Bembow Sale, Oak Ridge, NC, 1974; Collection of Laurence and Helen Alspaugh, Greensboro, North Carolina good overall, brasses replaced, original feet have been reset and have some later blocking (one rear back bracket replaced) back boards have been off and renailed, surface with some fading, some possible restorations at base moldings, other scattered minor surface flaws and repairs˜