Daniel Parker ⁸

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• He worked from 1748 to 1775 as a gold- and silversmith in Boston MA ⁴

• Boston MA, 1748: made snuffbox for Robert and Mary Calef. ⁴

• Advertised in the Boston Gazette (Boston MA), 1750-1770, as a goldsmith ⁴

• Creamer, c 1750
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 3 7/8"
wt: 4 oz, 1 dwt
Engraved H over I * S for John and Susanna (Touzell) Hathorne.

• Master to John Symmes abt 1754-1761 in Boston MA. ⁷

• Advertised in the Boston Gazette (Boston MA), 1759, the theft of " "Three large Silver Spoons stamp'd D.Parker, 12 Tea Spoons, most of them stamp'd D.P., 3 pair Silver Tea Tongs, not stamp'd, one large Gold Locket ... 14 pair large open-work'd Silver Shoe Buckles with Steel Chapes...." ⁴

• Tankard, 1759
Private Collection
h: 8½"
wt: 28 oz
Engraved The Gift / Of Benjⁿ. Pickman, Esq^r. to the / First Church in Salem 1759 / Transferred to the / North Church / SALEM / 1772.

• Sauce boat, 1760-1770
Boston Museum of Fine Arts ⁸
h: 5 1/8" (including handle)
l: 8" (including handle)
wt: 13 oz, 17½ dwt
One of a pair engraved with Hall arms. The inventory of Benjamin Hall's estate, probated in 1817, lists "2 sauceboats" left to his son Benjamin.

• Tankard, c 1760
Private Collection
Engraved N over E • S

• Advertised in 1761 (Boston MA), reporting he was again robbed, but the culprits were found. He also then advertised importations of jewelry and goldsmiths' tools from "his Shop near the Golden Ball." ⁸

• Advertised from 1763 to 1767 (Boston MA), mentioning his Union Street address and that his tools included "Forging & raising anvils for tankards, canns & creampots," and "Death head & heart in hand ring swages."

• Master to Stephen Emery c 1763-1770 in Boston MA. ⁷

• Boston MA, 1771: had a child of his fall "thru the scuttle at Christ's Church." ⁸

• He worked c 1775 as a gold- and silversmith in Salem MA though no record is found of his work there. ⁴

Daniel married Margaret Jarvis on 8 Oct 1751 in Charlestown MA. (Margaret Jarvis was born on 18 Oct 1729 in Boston MA.)