Barnabas Webb

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1742 to William Homes in Boston MA ¹

• He worked from circa 1750 to 1789 as a silversmith in Boston MA ⁸

• Advertised in 1756 (Boston MA), a ring which he had found in Cambridge, calling himself "Goldsmith, near the Market." ⁸

• Advertised in 1761 (Boston MA), "informes his Customers, that since he was burnt out near the Market he has opened a Shop in Back-Street, opposite Mr. Brown's Meeting-House, formerly occupied by Mr. Edward Whittemore." ⁸

• Advertised in 1765 (Boston MA), having "stopped" a spoon on the suspicion that it had been stolen. ⁸

• Boston MA, 1789: listed in the first Boston Directory as Barnabas Webb, retailer on Ann Street.
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• He worked after 1789 as a silversmith in Maine ⁸

Barnabas married Mary Holmes, daughter of William Holmes and Rebecca Dawes, in 1769 in Boston MA. (Mary Holmes was born about 1734 in Boston MA.)