Jonathan Otis

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1745 to Moody Russell in Sandwich MA ¹

• He worked from circa 1750 to 1755 as a silversmith in Newport RI made beaker dated 1751, gift of Deacon Edward Glover to First Church of Christ in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. ⁴

• Advertised in the Newport Mercury (Newport RI), 1765, reporting gold and silver taken from shop. ⁴

• He worked from circa 1776 to 1791 as a silversmith in Middletown CT made a teaspoon for daughter Mary, who married Caleb Bull in Hartford, 1778, inscribed MOB; beaker dated 1782, gift of Deacon Ezra Baldwin to the Church of Christ in Durham, Connecticut; and a set of six beakers dated 1784 and 1785 for First Church of Christ, Middletown. ³

• Beaker, c 1782
Yale University ¹⁹
h: 5 5/8"
d: 3 3/16" (of base)
wt: 8 oz, 16 dwt
Engraved "The Gift of / Deacon EZRA BALDWIN / to the Church of / CHRIST in DURHAM" The donor's sister, Hannah (Baldwin) Fowler gave the same church a beaker by Robert Fairchild.

Jonathan married Catharine Coggeshall on 16 Oct 1745 in Newport RI. (Catharine Coggeshall was born on 26 Sep 1717 in Newport RI and died about 1760 in Newport RI.)