Joseph Edwards

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1750 to Thomas Edwards or Samuell Edwards in Boston MA ¹

• Advertised in the Boston News-Letter (Boston MA), 1758, offering a reward for information about the theft in his shop. ³

• Advertised in the Boston Gazette (Boston MA), 1760-1770, ³

• Tankard, c 1760-1765
Yale University ¹⁹
h: 9 1/16
d: 5¼ (base)
wt: 30 oz, 19 dwt
Engraved "MP" on hande for Mary Porter

• Cann, 1765
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 5 3/16"
d: 3 3/8" (base)
wt: 13 oz, 2 1/2 dwt
Engraved with Green arms and crest on front; "G over I H" on bottom for Joshua and Hannah (Storer) Green.

• Receipt, 1765
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ¹
M^r Joshua Green to Joseph Edward Jun^r D^r

1765
April	22	To pr Pocket Book Clasps	0 : 7 : 2
May	11	To pr Tea Tongs	0 : 18 : 18
	18	To 2 Silver Canns	11 : 18 : 10
		To 1 Silver Porringer	3 : 11 : 1½
		To 1 Silver Porringer	3 : 11 : 1½
June	3	To 2 Silver Castors	4 : 1 : 7½
	7	To 6 Do Tea Spoons	1 : 5 : 8
	17	To 6 Do Table Spoons	5 : 9 : 8
	21	To 1 Do Punch Strainer	2 : 5 : 6
July	5	To 2 Do Gravy Spoons	3 : 6 : 1½
	6	To 1 Do Marrow Spoon	0 : 11 : 8
		To Engraving 12 Crests	0 : 8 :
		To Do 2 Coats of Arms	0 : 18 : 8
			35 : 2 : 0

• His uncle Samuel bequeathed him "a thimble stamp and a swage for tea and large spoons as a token of my respect to him."

In the manuscript book "Poems, chiefly Descriptive," written by Samuel Davis of Plymouth during 1789-1808, he includes "Joseph Edwards (died 1783 age 45)" with "The eldest of the trade [silver] whom I now recollect. . . . " ³