• Born: 30 Mar 1805, Philadelphia PA
• Marriage (1): Frances Biddle on 8 Oct 1827 in Philadelphia PA
• Died: 17 Nov 1888, Germantown PA

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Phillip Garrett, about 1818, in Philadelphia PA. ¹

• Partnership: Phillip Garrett, in 1828-1835, in Philadelphia PA. As PHILIP GARRETT & SON ⁴

• Example: Receipt, on 7 Aug 1835, in Winterthur Library. For goods bought from DUBOSQ & BATON.

• He worked in 1836-1860 as a silversmith and jeweler in Philadelphia PA with a shop at 712 and later 122 Chestnut Street.

• Example: Watch paper (used as a box label), circa 1840, in Winterthur Library.

• Example: Box label, circa 1840, in Winterthur Library.

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Philadelphia PA. Listed as a jeweler.

• Master: Samuel Biddle, about 1857, in Philadelphia PA. ¹

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in Philadelphia PA. Listed as a jeweler.

• General. Served as corporal in Fiftieth Regiment, Company E of the Reading Light Infantry during Civil War ¹

• He appeared on the census in 1870 in Philadelphia PA. Listed as a retired jeweler.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Philadelphia PA. Listed as a gentleman.

Thomas married Frances Biddle, daughter of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, on 8 Oct 1827 in Philadelphia PA. (Frances Biddle was born on 29 Nov 1803 in Philadelphia PA and died on 5 Sep 1873 in Germantown PA.)