• Born: 21 Feb 1732, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Hannah Lebaron on 17 Nov 1757 in Boston MA
• Died: 30 Nov 1792, Easton MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: John Parkman, on 14 Jan 1745-1748, in Boston MA.
  Described as a 'poor child' by the Boston Overseers of the Poor, he was apprenticed for a term of seven years to his cousin to learn "the Art & Mistery of a Gold Smith Also to Read Write & Cyper." ⁹

• Apprenticed: Jacob Hurd, in 1748-1752, in Boston MA. ⁹

• He worked in 1755-1765 as a silversmith in Boston MA
  From various court records filed after 1765, it appears that he had given up full-time silversmithing and had become a general merchant. ³

• Example: Cann, circa 1755, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 4 7/8"
  
  This is one of three pieces made for the Goodwins, including the following tankard and a porringer.

• Example: Tankard, circa 1760, in Private Collection. H: 9 1/4"
  wt: 31 oz
  Engraved G over N*L for Nathaniel and Lydia (Lebaron) Goodwin.

Benjamin married Hannah Lebaron, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 17 Nov 1757 in Boston MA. (Hannah Lebaron was born on 5 Apr 1734 in Plymouth MA and died on 25 Oct 1775 in Boston MA.)