Joseph Goldthwaite

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Boston MA, 1730: first Sergeant in Artillery Company; Captain in siege of Lewisburg, 1745. ³

• Tobacco box, c 1730-1740
Yale University ¹⁹
h: 1 1/16
w: 4 1/16
wt: 4 oz, 14 dwt
Engraved "WW" for William Welsteed, tutor of Harvard College.

• Advertised in the Boston Weekly News-Letter (Boston MA), 15 Apr 1731-22 Apr 1731, "Joseph Goldthwaite, goldsmith, is removed from Mr. Burril's shop, to the House adjoining to the Sign of the Red lyon..." ³

• Appointed in 1744 as Constable in Boston MA ³

Joseph married Martha Lewis on 8 Feb 1727 in Boston MA. (Martha Lewis was born on 27 Feb 1707 in Boston MA and died on 26 Oct 1783.)