Smith, Zachariah, Durham Yd, Strand area, London, u and cm (d. by 1741). Dead by May 1741 when his goods were auctioned off ‘within Five Doors of Durham Yard in the Strand’. Goods on offer included ‘Four Posted and Harrateen Beds, Settee Bedsteads, fine Quilts and Blankets, Cotton Counterpanes, French Carpets, very Handsome Walnut-Tree Chairs, Spanish Leather Seats, Easy Chairs, Chest upon Chest, Buroes, Sconces and Chimney Glasses, a very good Eight Day Clock, and other goods’. Some small ‘India Cabinets’ were also specified. In connection with certain items it was stated that ‘these Goods are almost new, being made to go abroad, and free from Buggs’. [London Evening Post, 1–4 and 20–22 May 1742]