The small tea table in the east parlor is set with a porcelain tea service imported from China by English merchants. In the mid-eighteenth century tea was a fashionable social beverage and visitors to the house might have enjoyed a cup while they visited with Sarah Henry or her daughter Patsey.

This tea service consists of a teapot, a jug for cream, a tea caddy for storing the unused tea, and several teacups. Like many eighteenth century teacups, they do not have handles. At one time this tea set probably also had a matching slop bowl for disposing of used tea leaves and a set of deep, curved saucers to match the teacups.