• Born: 29 Jun 1783, Portsmouth NH
• Marriage (1): Mehitable Cutts Appleton on 1 Nov 1806 in Portsmouth NH
• Died: 3 Jun 1849, Philadelphia PA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Samuel Drowne, about 1796, in Portsmouth NH. ¹

• Flynt & Fales. Portsmouth Directories show he was Town Clerk, 1817; Clerk of U. S. Bank in Portsmouth; Cashier of People's Bank in Bangor. Took over father's business in 1804. Deeds from 1810 to 1817 consistently refer to him as gold- and silversmith or just goldsmith. ³

• Advertised: New Hampshire Gazette, in 1810-1812, in Portsmouth NH. For two apprentices to gold- and silversmith's business and "continues gold and silversmith's business and has taken over Joseph Clark's stock of gold." ³

• Advertised: New Hampshire Gazette, in 1814, in Portsmouth NH. After severe loss in fire of 1813, announced move into ". . . a temporary building on his former stand . . . carries on his gold and silversmith's business." ³

• Advertised: New Hampshire Gazette, in 1815, in Portsmouth NH. Announcing new shop in Daniel Street " . . . .happy to execute orders in the gold and silversmith's line." ³

• Example: Cream ladle, circa 1810, in Private Collection. L: 7 1/2"

• His obituary was published in the New Hampshire Gazette on 12 Jun 1849. Noting his death in Philadelphia on June 3, age 67.

Thomas married Mehitable Cutts Appleton on 1 Nov 1806 in Portsmouth NH. (Mehitable Cutts Appleton was born in 1774 in Portsmouth NH.)