Thomas Edwards

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1714 to John Edwards in Boston MA ¹

• Cup, c 1723
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 3 1/2"
d: 3 7/16" (lip)
wt: 5 oz, 18 1/2 dwt
Ergraved with arms and crest of Ebenezer Storer; "S over E M" on bottom for Ebenezer and Mary (Edwards) Storer

• Porringer, c 1730-1740
Brooklyn Museum
h: 2"
l: 8"
d: 5½" (of top)
Engraved "H over I * S"

• Creamer, c 1740
Private Collection
h: 3 7/8"
wt: 4 oz
Engraved "MM".

• Advertised in the Boston Weekly News-Letter (Boston MA), 8 May 1746, that he would carry on his father's goldsmith business "at the shop of the deceased." ³

• Master to Zachariah Brigden abt 1748 in Boston MA. ¹

• Teapot, c 1750-1755
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 5 5/8"
d: 2 ¾" (base)
wt: 17 oz, 15 dwt
Engraved with the Speakman coat of arms and crest.

• 14 Sep 1755: Ebenezer Storer recorded in his diary: "I have this Day another awful Warning to prepare for Eternity in y^e sudden & surprising Death of my Uncle Tho^s Edwards, who was this morning to all appearence in good Health & before noon was a pale & lifeless Corpse".

• Advertised in the Boston Gazette (Boston MA), 1 Mar 1756, his daughter Sarah Edwards solicited payment of debts. His estate was appraised by David Cutler, Nathaniel Thayer, and Joseph Hiller. It was valued at £1,780/12/4, placing him among the top ten percent of Boston's wealthiest citizens. ³

Thomas married Sarah Burr on 19 Oct 1723 in Boston MA. (Sarah Burr was born on 17 Oct 1701 in Boston MA and died in 1729 in Boston MA.)