Thomas Dane

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• He worked from circa 1746 to 1759 as a silversmith in Boston MA ³

• Sugar bowl, 1748
Private Collection ⁷
Engraved "Mary Loring / the Gift of her Father / John Gyles Esq^r / 1748" for Mary Gyles who married Nathaniel Loring in 1746 and whose first child, Mary, was born in 1748. A teapot by John Burt at the Minneapolis Museum of Art has the same inscription.

• Cann, c 1748
Yale University
h: 6½"

• Boston MA, 22 Feb 1754: purchased a house from Elizabeth Parker on northwest side of Hanover Street. Both deed and morgage, in Suffolk County Land Records, refer to him as a goldsmith of Boston. ³

Thomas married Abigail Fernald on 3 Aug 1749 in Boston MA. (Abigail Fernald was born in 1726 in Kittery ME, christened on 15 May 1726 in Kittery ME and died in 1799 in Boston MA.)