• Born: 5 Jan 1692, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Abigail Cheever on 3 Jun 1714 in Boston MA
• Died: 23 Jan 1745, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark. (Tentative attribution per Winterthur.)

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Apprenticed: John Coney, circa 1706, in Boston MA. ¹

• Example: Gold buttons, circa 1710-1720, in Yale University. D: 7/16"
  Engraved HANNAH CARTER on face for Hannah (Gookin) Carter. ¹³

• Example: Candlestick, circa 1720, in Winterthur Library. H: 7 3/16"
  w: 4 7/16" (base)
  wt: 14 oz, 16 dwt
  One of a pair, made en suite with a tray and candle snuffer. Engraved W over D + S for Daniel and Sarah (Hill) Warner. ⁷

• Master: John Blowers, in 1724-1732, in Boston MA. ⁹

• Master: Samuel Gray, about 1724, in Boston MA. ⁹

• Example: Porringer, circa 1725-1730, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 1 5/8"
  d: 5 5/8" (of bowl)
  wt: 6 oz, 14 dwt
  Original owner unknown. Engraved later C over I S for John and Susannah (Greenleaf) Coburn. ¹⁰

• Flynt & Fales: 1730. He debited the estate of Mr. William Smith "to six funerall Rings £ 10-6-9." ³

• Example: Teaspoon, circa 1735, in Private Collection. L: 4 5/8"
  Engraved I * S. A strainer spoon by Burt with identical monogram is recorded by Winterthur.

• Example: Caster, circa 1735, in Essex Institute. H: 3 11/16"
  wt: 2 oz, 10 dwt
  Originally owned by silversmith Daniel Northey. Engraved 1768 / N over W + R for William and Rebecca (Collins) Northey. ¹⁹

• Example: Mug, circa 1740, in Private Collection. H: 5 1/4"
  d: 3 3/38" (base)
  wt: 10 oz, 10 dwt.
  

• Example: Thimble, circa 1740, in Historical Society York PA. ³²

• Example: Punch bowl, circa 1740, in Private Collection. D: 7 5/8"
  Engraved around the body with the name and armes of Jonathan Mountfort Junr., Samuel Martain, Lemuel Gowen, John Greenleaf, Kenelm Winslow, and Joseph Grant Junr.
  

• Example: Tankard, circa 1745, in Yale University. H: 8 1/4"
  d: 5 7/16" (base)
  wt: 25 oz, 4 dwt
  Engraved on front with Moulton arms, "M over I H" on handle, and a map of Louisburg, Taken by the English / June 17, 1745 on handle terminal. By tradition, given to Jeremiah Moulton by Sir William Pepperell for his part in the capture of Louisburg. ¹³

• Flynt & Fales. Burt held town offices and at his death his amassed estate totaled £6,460. The inventory of his tools, probably made by William Simpkins, who was one of the appraisers of his estate, was given in the catalogue of the first exhibition of American silver at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1906. ³

John married Abigail Cheever on 3 Jun 1714 in Boston MA. (Abigail Cheever was born on 20 May 1690 in Boston MA.)