Elias Davis

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Master to Jacob Perkins abt 1779 in Newburyport MA. ³ It is traditionally accepted that Davis left his business to his apprentice, who was 17 at the time of his master's death.

• Silversmith working in Newburyport, c. 1775. His mark is on a large spoon which was donated to a church in Newburyport by Joshua Titcomb, yeoman, in his will in 1770. A cann with his mark was on display at the Rhode Island School of Design. When Davis died in 1783, he left his business to his 17-year-old apprentice, Jacob Perkins, who later moved to Philadelphia. Elias may have made the spoon recovered by William Coffin Little in 1775. In a deed dated 21 July 1778, Elias Davis of Newburyport, goldsmith, purchased a house and land in Newburyport. Probate records of 1797 establish a son, Elias Davis, born 1782, who became a silversmith and worked in Newburyport, Boston (by 1805), and Gardiner, Maine (by 1828). ²

Elias married Pheobe Woodman on 28 Dec 1769 in Newburyport MA. (Pheobe Woodman was born about 1748.)