Roswell Hopkins Bailey

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1836 to Ebenezer Eaton Bailey and Samuel Chase Bailey in Claremont NH ¹

• He was a partner from 1837 to 1839 with Ebenezer Eaton, Charles Chase, and Samuel C. Bailey in Claremont NH as E. E. BAILEY & Co.

• Advertised in the Woodstock Spirit of the Age, 1840-1850, as a jeweler and manufacturer of silverware and fancy goods. ⁴

• Master to Samuel Philbrick Bailey abt 1840 in Woodstock VT. ⁶

• Master to Bradbury Mellon Bailey abt 1842 in Woodstock VT. ¹

• Advertised in the Vermont Standard, 1861, offering silver spoons, warranted pure coin, of every pattern in the market. ⁴

• 1861-1874: listed in Walton's Register as a silversmith and jeweler. After closing his store in 1867, he continued working as a silversmith from a small workshop in his home at 12 Mountain Avenue ⁴

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Woodstock VT, listed as a silversmith.

Roswell married Fidelia Bailey, daughter of Bradbury Bailey and Agnes Marshall, on 3 Feb 1831 in Unity NH. (Fidelia Bailey was born on 12 Dec 1809 in Weare NH and died in 1874 in Woodstock VT.)