• Born: 1746, Chatham MA
• Marriage (1): Esther Smith
• Died: 1784, Annapolis MD

  General notes:

Silversmith (tentative identification)

  Events in his life were:

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• Apprenticed: (probably) Philip Syng, about 1760, in Philadelphia PA. ⁴

• He worked in 1764-1765 as a silversmith in Annapolis MD in shop of William Faris. ⁴

• He worked in 1765-1785 as a silversmith and engraver in Annapolis MD from a shop on South East Street, 1765 and at "the Sign of the Silver Coffeepot, opposite the house of John Ball" in 1767. ⁴

• He worked in 1765 as an engraver in Annapolis MD for Jonas Green, Printer. Engraved the seal of the Maryland Assembly.

• He worked circa 1765-1791 as a silversmith in Annapolis MD ³⁰

• Advertised: Maryland Gazette, on 21 Mar 1765, in Annapolis MD. Announcing "Gold Smith and Jeweller from Philadelphia, near St. Anne's Church in South-East Street. . ." where he would sell "at the Philadelphia Prices, and mark all his work with the Word STERLING." ⁸

• Example: Threepence coin, in 1783, in Private Collection. He cut the dies for fellow silversmith John Chalmers who privately issued coins in three denominations to combat the debased coinage circulating in Annapolis at the time.

• Example: Shilling coin, in 1783, in Private Collection.

Thomas married Esther Smith. (Esther Smith was born on 1 Jun 1750 in Chatham MA.)