• Born: 20 Mar 1704, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Elizabeth Symmes on 14 May 1726 in Boston MA
• Died: 1780, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark (this may be the mark of William Simes)

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

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• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1717 to William Cowell in Boston MA ⁹
  Andrew Tyler or Benjamin Burt have also been suggested.

• Advertised in the The Weekly News-Letter (Boston MA), 20 Jun 1728, "Goldsmith near the Draw Bridge, Boston," offering for sale "the library of the late Rev. Robert Stanton of Salem." ³

• Master to Thomas Barton Simpkins Abt 1742-1749 in Boston MA. ¹

• Boston MA, 1743: served as Sergeant of Artillery. ³

• Appointed in 1743 as Constable in Boston MA declined to serve and paid fine. ³

• Advertised in the Boston Evening-Post (Boston MA), 27 Jan 1746, "William Simpkins, goldsmith, loss of a piece of silver three inches broad, 1/4 inch thick and weighing about fourteen ounces." ³

• Master to Daniel Rogers Abt 1748 in Boston MA. ¹

• Creamer, c 1750-1760
  Cleveland Museum of Fine Art
  h: 4 1/4"

• Footed salt, c 1750
  Winterthur Library
  h: 1 5/8"
  d: 2 5/8"
  Engraved "B over I * S". An identical salt by Samuel Burt is in the same collection.

• Boston MA, 1757: served as Ensign of Artillery. ³

• Porringer, c 1760
  Boston MA
  l: 7 3/4"
  wt: 7 oz
  Engraved "C over J * P."

• Salver, c 1760
  Private Collection
  d" 8"
  wt: 13 oz, 4 dwt
  Engraved on front with the crest of Richard Lechmere

• He was a partner circa 1770 with Samuel Minott in Boston MA as MINOTT & SIMPKINS. ³

• Tankard also marked by Samuel Minott, Bef 4 Nov 1770
  Private Collection
  h: 8 3/4"
  wt: 28 oz, 10 dwt
  Engraved The Gift of / Mrs. Sarah Adams: (Relict / of mr. Edward Adams late of / Milton.) to the first Church in / Braintree..

William married Elizabeth Symmes on 14 May 1726 in Boston MA. (Elizabeth Symmes was born on 20 Mar 1707 in Boston MA.)