Lewis Cary

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1811 to Churchill and Treadwell in Boston MA ¹

• He worked from 1820 to 1830 as a silversmith in Boston MA appears in the Boston Directory of 1821 as a silversmith. In 1828 he became a member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association. In the Directory of 1830 he appeared without occupation; his early demise suggests that was because of illness. ⁴

• Communion cup, 1824
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 9"
d: 3 3/8" (base)
wt: 12 oz, 18 ½ dwt
One of a pair; made for the West Church, Boston