Stephen Emery

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

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• Apprenticed from circa 1763 to 1770 to Daniel Parker in Boston MA ⁷

He probably stayed on several years as a journeyman.

• He worked from circa 1775 to 1800 as a silversmith in Boston MA
Listed in city directory for 1800 at No 1 Fifth Street. ³

• Teaspoon, c 1775
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
l: 5 1/8"
wt: 8½ dwt
Engraved with crest of bird on branch over MS for Mary Storer.

• Sauceboat, c 1775
Moore Collection at Providence College ²²
h: 4 7/8"
l: 8½"
wt: 14 oz
One of a pair engraved T E C / August 24^th 1762 for Thomas and Elizabeth (Scammon) Cutts.

• Master to Thomas Bentley abt 1777 in Boston MA. ¹

• Master to Robert Dawes abt 1780 in Boston MA. ¹

• Tankard, c 1780-1790
Yale University ⁷
h: 9 1/8"
Based on the proportions, mouldings, and cast elements, this may be the tankard Emery order from Paul Revere in August 1787.

• Advertised in the Massachusetts Centinel (Boston MA), 1789, that he carried on "the goldsmith business in all its branches" at 5 Union Street, which would have been next door to Joseph Loring. ³

• Porringer, 1789
Huntington Library ²³
d: 5¼"

Engraved W over D • H for David and Hannah (Watts) West.

• Master to Thomas Knox Emery abt 1795 in Boston MA. ¹

Stephen married Mary Ann Knox on 20 Mar 1777 in Boston MA. (Mary Ann Knox was born on 3 Oct 1755 in Boston MA and died in Dec 1801.)