• Born: 19 Jan 1710, Boston MA
• Died: 1 May 1748, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: John Burt, about 1724, in Boston MA. ⁹

• Buhler: 1732-1733, in Boston MA. Deed recorded for land bought for a shop at Cornhill, south side of Town House. The deed witnessed by William Simpkins and Basil Dixwell. ¹⁰

• Example: Porringer, circa 1742, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 1 7/8"
  d: 5 3/8" (of bowl)
  wt: 7 oz, 12 1/2 dwt
  Engraved "A over SM for Silas and Mary (Gyles) Atkins.
  
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