• Born: 6 Dec 1683, Narragansett RI
• Marriage (1): Elizabeth Fleet on 10 Apr 1707 in Newport RI
• Marriage (2): Elizabeth Paine on 12 Jan 1725 in Newport RI
• Died: 5 Dec 1737, Newport RI

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

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• Apprenticed about 1696 to John Coney? in Boston MA
  

• Cup, c 1705-1715
  Yale University ¹³
  h: 4 1/2"
  d: 3 1/2" (of base)
  wt: 12 oz, 10 dwt
  Engraved O over T E for Thomas and Elizabeth (Marsh) Olney.

• He worked circa 1705-1737 as a silversmith in Newport RI

• Tankard, c 1710
  Private Collection
  h: 6 1/4"
  wt: 20 oz, 10 dwt

• Cup, c 1710
  Private Collection
  h: 3"
  wt: 4 oz
  Engraved F B on handle and David Brayton on base.

• Made freeman of Newport RI, 1714. ³

• Tankard, c 1718
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  h: 8 3/16"
  d: 6" (of base)
  wt: 37 oz, 9 dwt
  Engraved "S over B * M" on handle and "Brinley and Mary Burroughs-Sylvester 1718 / Thomas and Mary Sylvester-Dering 1752 / Sylvester and Esther Sarah Havens-Dering 1795 / Nicoll Havens and Frances Huntington-Dering 1839 / Sylvester and Ella Virginia Bristol-Dering 1867" on front

• Porringer, c 1720
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  h: 2"
  w: 8 1/8" (including handle)
  d: 5 7/16 (lip)
  wt: 7 oz, 18 dwt
  Engraved "S over B * M" on handle and "Brinley and Mary Burroughs-Sylvester 1718 / Thomas and Mary Sylvester-Dering 1752 / Sylvester and Esther Sarah Havens-Dering 1795 / Nicoll Havens and Frances Huntington-Dering 1839 / Sylvester and Ella Virginia Bristol-Dering 1867" on front

• Cup, c 1725
  Private Collection
  h: 2 3/4"
  wt: 4 oz.
  Engraved S * F.

• Newport RI, 1726: with silver shop next north of Goulds Tailors. ³

• Appointed in 1728 as Justice of the Peace in Newport RI ³

• Appointed circa 1729-1737 as Assistant in General Assembly in Newport RI assistant to Governor investigating health conditions. ³

• Appointed in 1737 as Committee to settle boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire in Newport RI ³

Samuel married Elizabeth Fleet on 10 Apr 1707 in Newport RI. (Elizabeth Fleet was born in 1685 in Newport RI and died on 5 Mar 1722 in Newport RI.)

Samuel next married Elizabeth Paine, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 12 Jan 1725 in Newport RI. (Elizabeth Paine was born on 6 Nov 1681 in Bristol RI and died in Mar 1759 in Bristol RI.)