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Topic: Happy Fourth of July!
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Polly
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posted 07-04-2017 01:35 PM
  
Happy Independence Day from Leonard & Wilson of Philadelphia, c. 1850s. (2 views of the Capitol, one of Washington's Tomb, and an eagle.)   IP: Logged |
Scott Martin
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posted 07-04-2017 02:43 PM
Happy 4th to you as well as to everyone else.
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wev
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posted 07-04-2017 03:45 PM
Here are the 435 silversmith in my project who were of age in 1776, though some had not begun to work at their craft and others had set it aside. Some among them were Loyalists, but many served against the king, some prominently and others as common soldiers. A few made the ultimate sacrifice, like Lieutenant Enoch Stanton, who perished in the defense of Fort Griswold at Groton, Sept. 6, 1781, the same day and in the same battle as his brother Daniel. It is recorded in the minutes to Washington that, "He asked for no quarter and no quarter was given. He fought like a tiger and was shot to pieces."Nathan Adams, Pygan Adams, William Adgate, Nathan Albee, Timothy Allen, Jonathan Almy, Jeronimus Alstyne, John Andrews, Thomas Arnold, Ebenezer Austin, James Austin, Josiah Austin, Nathaniel Austin, John Avery, John Avery Delucena Backus, Loring Bailey, Ebenezer Balch, William Ball, Henry B. Barlow, Nathaniel Barrett, Samuel Barrett, Nathaniel Barstow, Israel Bartlett, Samuel Bartlett, Joshua Bassett, Miles Beach, Caleb Beal, John Bedford, Samuel Belknap, John B. Benjamin, Eli Bentley, Thomas Best, Owen Biddle, Paul Bigelow, Andrew Billings, Daniel Billings, Charles Bisbee, Samuel Bissell, Thomas Bissell, Jacob Boelen, Timothy Bonticou, Timothy Bonticou, James Boutelle, Daniel Boyer, Aner Bradley, Ephraim Brasher, John Breed, Zachariah Brigden, Joseph Lasinby Brown, Jonas Bruce, Charles Oliver Bruff, James Earle Bruff, Joseph Bruff, William Bubier, Abel Buell, John Buell, Samuel Buell, Caleb Bull, Martin Bull, Benjamin Bunker, John Burger, Daniel Burnap, George Burnham, Nathaniel Burr, Benjamin Burt, Phineas Bushnell, Benjamin Bussey, John Butler, Henry Buxton Elias Calendar, Benjamin Callender, Joseph Callender, Samuel Canfield, William Cario, James Carpenter, Joseph Carpenter, Daniel Noble Carrington, Gideon Casey, John Chalmers, John Champlin, Goldsmith Chandlee, Jean Simon Chaudron, Beriah Chittenden, Ebenezer Chittenden, Samuel Chute, Israel Clark, Joseph Clark, Thomas Clark, William Clark, Joseph Claypoole, John Coburn, Seth Storer Coburn, John Codner, Joseph Coolidge, Joseph Copp, Walter Cornell, John Coverly, Thomas Coverly, Nathaniel Crittenden, Jonathan Crosby, Andrew Croswell, Nathaniel Croswell, Richard Cutler, Jacob Cuyler Henry Daggett, John Davenport, Jonathan Davenport, Lemuel Davenport, Samuel Davenport, John David, Elias Davis, Brazillai Davison, Petrus De Reimer, William Delarue, Ebenezer Dennis, George Dennis, Daniel Deshon, John Dexter, Thomas Dixon, Seril Dodge, Amos Doolittle, Enos Doolittle, Isaac Doolittle, Isaac Doolittle, Benjamin Drowne, Samuel Drowne, Abraham Dubois, Daniel Dupuy, Daniel Dupuy, John Dupuy, John Durand, Samuel Durand Reuben Earle, Isaiah Eaton, Benjamin Edwards, Joseph Edwards, Alfred Elderkin, Elisha Elderkin, David Ellsworth, Effingham Embree, Stephen Emery Robert Fairchild, William Faris, Peter Field, George Fielding, John Fitch, Josiah Flagg, Richard Flower, Timothy Follett, John Folsom, William Garret Forbes, Samuel Ford, Joseph Foster, Nathaniel Fowle, Johann George Franciscus, Julius Frary, Ebenezer Frothingham John Gardiner, Elizabeth Gardner, Joseph Gardner, Eliakim Garretson, Stephen Gavitt, Timothy Gerrish, John Gladding Gibbs, William W. Gilbert, Samuel Gillett, John Ward Gilman, Joseph Goldthwaite, Benjamin Goodwin, Miles Gorham, William Gowen, Thomas Grant, Elisha Gray, Benjamin Greene, Rufus Greene, Benjamin Greenleaf, David Greenleaf, Timothy Greenleaf, Nathaniel Sheafe Griffith, John Guild, William Gurley, Joel Gustin Charles Hall, Joseph Hall, John Hallam, Benjamin Halstead, Thomas Hammersley, John Hancock, Benjamin Hanks, Thomas Harland, Reuben Harmon, Jacob Harsen, Marguerite Hastier, Oliver Hastings, John Hathorne, Joseph Hathorne, William Haverstick, David Haynes, Perley Haynes, John Heath, Joshua H. Heurtin, James Hill, Joseph Hiller, Freeman Hinckley, Samuel Hitchborn, Eliakim Hitchcock, Enoch Hoag, Jacob Hollingshead, Morgan Hollingshead, William Hollingshead, William Holmes, William Holmes, William Hookey, Joseph W. Hopkins, Stephen Hopkins, Henry Horah, David Howe, Micajah Howe, Samuel Hoxie, Richard Humphreys, Thomas Hunt, Benjamin Hurd, Nathaniel Hurd, John Strangeways Hutton Joseph Holt Ingraham Clement Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Munson Jarvis, Jacob Jennings, Miles Johnson, Samuel Johnson, John Jones Nathan Keeler, Joseph King, Aaron Lane Edward Symmes Lang, Nathaniel Lang, Richard Lang, Jacob Gerritse Lansing, Rufus Lathrop, John Leacock, Thomas Lee, Paul Little, William Coffin Little, Benjamin Loring, Joseph Loring, Moses Lovett, Joseph Lownes, Moses Lunt, Johannes Lupp, Peter Lupp, Thomas Lynde, John Burt Lyng David Main, Sylvester Marius, Jonathan Marsh, White Matlack, William B. Matlack, Peter Rushton Maverick, Silas Merriman, Nathan Merrow, James Miller, Nathan Miller, Richardson Minor, Samuel Minott, Norman Morrison, Jacob Morse, David Colson Moseley, Joseph Moulton, Joseph Moulton, Lydia Moulton, William Moulton, Amos Munson, Eli Mygatt John Naglee, John Nelson, Mark Nelson, James North, Abijah Northey, David Northey, Edward Northey, William Northey, Samuel Noyes Andre Olivier, Jonathan Otis Otto Paul de Parisen, Daniel Parker, Isaac Parker, Samuel Parmelee, Martin Parry, John Tyng Peabody, Joseph Pearsall, Thomas Pearsall, Elias Pelletreau, John Pelletreau, Durden Perkins, Houghton Perkins, Joseph Perkins, Jedediah Phelps, William Phillips, Nathan Pierce, Benjamin Pierpont, Benjamin Pitman, Saunders Pitman, Ebenezer Pitts, Samuel Place, Benjamin Platt, Jonathan Pollard, Thomas Pons, Jabez Post, Samuel Post, John Potter, John Potwine, Phineas Pratt, Seth Pratt, Elizabeth Preston, James Prichard, Benjamin Prince, Thorndike Proctor Eli Reed, Enos Reeves, Paul Revere, Silas Rice, Giles Richards, Francis Richardson, Joseph Richardson, Joseph Richardson, Nathaniel Richardson, James Ridgway, Daniel Robbins, Christopher Robert, James Gilbert Roe, William Roe, Daniel Rogers, Daniel Rogers, Joseph Rogers, Paul Rogers, Johannes Roseboom, Silas Royce, Daniel Russell, Joseph Russell Seth Sadler, Bartholomew Schaats, Harmanus Schuyler, James Sherman, Peleg Sherman, Samuel Shethar, Thomas Shields, Stephen Sibley, Timothy Sibley, Hezekiah Silliman, Thomas Barton Simpkins, William Simpkins, Anthony Singleton, David Smith, Ebenezer Smith, Jeremiah Snow, Jeremiah Snow, Thomas Sparrow, Ebenezer Staniford, John Staniford, Daniel Stanton, Enoch Stanton, Zebulon Stanton, Jasper Starr, Charles Stevens, Daniel Stewart, Pierre Hubert Stollenwerck, Samuel Stout, Abel Stowell, Caleb Swan, Robert Swan, Henry Philips Sweetser, John Symmes, Timothy Symmes, Philip Syng James Tanner, John Tanner, James Taylor, Barent Ten Eyck, Jacob Koenraedt Ten Eyck, James Tilley, Samuel Tingley, William Tisdale, Daniel Toncray, Benjamin Toppan, John Touzell, Isaac Townsend, Joseph Toy, George Trott, Jonathan Trott, Isaac Truax, Richard Trumbull Andrew Underhill, Thomas Underhill Hendricus Van Vechten, Hendrick Van Vleck, Daniel Van Voorhis, Josiah Vinton John Athan Waite, William Waite, William Walworth, Ambrose Ward, Bilious Ward, Maycock Ward, William Ward, Cuthbert Warner, Joseph Warner, Joshua Weaver, Barnabas Webb, Lake Webster, John Welch, Ebenezer Wells, Caleb Wheaton, Amos White, Daniel Hurlburt White, Peregrine White, Silas White, Ebenezer Whiting, William Bradford Whiting, Deodat Williams, Stephen Williams, Bancroft Woodcock, Jesse Woodruff, Jeremiah Wool, Robert Wormsted, Eleazer Wyer Samuel Yates, Elijah Yeomans, Ebenezer Young, Benjamin Youngs, Calvin Youngs
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agleopar
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posted 07-05-2017 08:00 AM
I have recently come across history of my family that took place a year or two before 1776. It gave account of a dinner in the Francis and Sarah (Burt) Shaw house next door to Paul Reveres house and across the street from Sarah's fathers house, John Burt. Their eldest son Samuel, 19, named after his Burt uncle called out one of the 2 English officers billeted at their house for insulting the colonials as stupid and lazy. The duel was called off by the commanding officer Pitcairn, who made the other apologize. In my mind that enforced apology is the reason I am here today! Since John Burt died in 1745 and Samuel Burt in 1754 it was Benjamin Burt, listed above by Wev who might have been on the scene. He possibly fought at Lexington as there is a record of a Benjamin Burt there. Belated happy 4th to all and huge thanks to Wev for his time and efforts to record all the smiths! [This message has been edited by agleopar (edited 07-05-2017).] IP: Logged |
asheland
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posted 07-05-2017 10:22 AM
Happy 4th! IP: Logged |
Polly
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posted 07-05-2017 12:36 PM
Wait, Rob, if you're related to silversmiths on WEV's list and are yourself a silversmith, why aren't YOU on WEV's list?IP: Logged |
ahwt
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posted 07-05-2017 05:45 PM
agleopar, that is a great story and not just for the fourth of July.IP: Logged |
agleopar
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posted 07-05-2017 10:02 PM
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Originally posted by Polly:
Wait, Rob, if you're related to silversmiths on WEV's list and are yourself a silversmith, why aren't YOU on WEV's list?
I think because he's still filling out the 19th c and has a little bit to do before he gets to this c...??
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wev
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posted 07-05-2017 10:11 PM
I tend to shy away from the living.IP: Logged |
agleopar
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posted 07-05-2017 10:26 PM
Ahwt, it really is and my immediate family had no idea. An academic from the mid west wrote about a 19th c. relation and related the story to give back ground. I stumbled on her book because a cousin was selling family China and the auction house quoted her.[This message has been edited by agleopar (edited 07-05-2017).] IP: Logged |
agleopar
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posted 07-05-2017 10:29 PM
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Originally posted by wev:
I tend to shy away from the living.
Oh great I guess I have to check out to get checked in?. IP: Logged |
agleopar
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posted 07-05-2017 10:33 PM
By the way Wev I know the currently living Timothy Bonticou (he is not a silversmith but is descended directly).IP: Logged |
Polly
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posted 07-06-2017 11:50 PM
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Originally posted by agleopar:
Oh great I guess I have to check out to get checked in?.
Murder-mystery plot. IP: Logged |
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