Samuel Vernon

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1696 to John Coney? in Boston MA

• He worked from circa 1705 to 1737 as a silversmith in Newport RI

• Cup, c 1705-1715
Yale University ¹⁹
h: 4½"
d: 3½" (of base)
wt: 12 oz, 10 dwt
Engraved O over T E for Thomas and Elizabeth (Marsh) Olney.

• Made freeman of Newport RI, 1714. ³

• Tankard, c 1725
Private Collection

• Newport RI, 1726: with silver shop next north of Goulds Tailors. ³

• Appointed in 1728 as Justice of the Peace in Newport RI ³

• Appointed from circa 1729 to 1737 as Assistant in General Assembly in Newport RI assistant to Governor investigating health conditions. ³

• Appointed in 1737 as Committee to settle boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire in Newport RI ³

Samuel married Elizabeth Fleet on 10 Apr 1707 in Newport RI. (Elizabeth Fleet was born in 1685 in Newport RI and died on 5 Mar 1722 in Newport RI.)

Samuel next married Elizabeth Paine on 12 Jan 1725 in Newport RI. (Elizabeth Paine was born on 6 Nov 1681 in Bristol RI and died in Mar 1759 in Bristol RI.)