• Born: 10 Oct 1703, Albany NY
• Marriage (1): Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling on 30 Jan 1729 in Albany NY
• Died: 21 Aug 1772, Albany NY

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Apprenticed: Henricus Boelen, about 1718, in New York City NY. ¹

• Example: Caster, circa 1730, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 5 5/8"
  d: 1 7/8" (base)
  wt: 5 oz, 6 dwt
  Made for Philip Schuyler, second husband of Sarah Folman, mother of Nicholas Roosevelt. Engraved with family crest. Unmarked, but attribution based on nearly identical set of three marked casters in the Museum of the City of New York. ¹⁰

• Example: Porringer, circa 1730, in Winterthur Library. L: 7 5/8"
  d: 5 1/2" (of bowl)
  wt: 9 oz, 11 1/2 dwt
  Engraved "B over T P" and (crudely) "A. D. 1708"

• Freeman: 1731, in New York City NY. ⁷

• Example: Mourning ring, in 1757, in Yale University. D: 7/8"
  Engraved "Govr. Belcher obt 31 Augt 1757 Æ 76"

• Advertised: New York Journal, on 23 Oct 1766, in New York City NY. As a gold- and silversmith, noting address on Bridge Street near Exchange. ⁴

Adrianus married Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling on 30 Jan 1729 in Albany NY. (Gertrude Elizabeth Van Taerling was born on 17 Nov 1709 in New York City NY.)