Charles Farley

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1804 to Robert Brookhouse in Salem MA ³

• He worked from 1812 to 1814 as a silversmith in Portland ME

• Advertised in the Portland Gazette and Eastern Argus (Portland ME), 1813, from shop at 4 Union Row, one door west of Nathaniel Cross, noting the manufacture and sales of "jewelry and silverware of all kinds." ³

• He was a partner from 1814 to 1818 with Eleazer Wyer in Portland ME as WYER & FARLEY. When this partnership was dissolved, the business was continued by Wyer. ⁴

• He worked from 1818 to 1830 as a silversmith in Portland ME ⁴

• Master to Cyrus Hamlin 1827 in Portland ME.

Charles married Rebecca Hamlin, daughter of Major Hannibal Hamlin and Susannah Faulkner, on 6 Sep 1826 in Portland ME. (Rebecca Hamlin was born on 25 Feb 1805 in Waterford Oxford Maine and died in 1878.)