Petrus De Reimer

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1752 to Nicholas Roosevelt in New York City NY ¹

• Teaset, c 1760
Museum of the City of New York ¹⁷
h: 6¾" (teapot)
Engraved with the Van Rensselear crest and the iniitials of Philip Schuyler Van Rensselear, Mayor of Albany NY.

• He worked from after 1759 to 1795 as a silversmith in New York City NY ⁴

• Made freeman of New York City NY, 1769. ⁴

• He worked from 1796 to 1809 as a silversmith in Poughkeepsie NY ⁴

• He worked in 1814 as a silversmith in Hyde Park NY ⁴

Petrus married Elsie Babbington on 10 May 1763. (Elsie Babbington was born on 5 Aug 1744 in Albany NY, died on 19 Oct 1818 in Hyde Park NY and was buried in Hyde Park NY.)