• Born: 23 May 1705, New York City NY
• Marriage (1): Eunice Burr on 22 Nov 1730 in Fairfield CT
• Died: 1766, Fairfield CT

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• Apprenticed: Benjamin Wynkoop, about 1718, in New York City NY. ¹

• He worked circa 1730 as a silversmith in Fairfield CT where silver bearing mark attributed to him is owned by various Connecticut churches, including a flat topped paten with molded rim and truncated foot with molded base. This was the only piece of church plate saved when Fairfield was burned by the British in 1779. ³

• Example: Teapot, circa 1730-1735, in Metropolitan Museum of Art. H: 6 3/16"
  w: 9 5/16"
  wt: 17 oz, 10 dwt

• Example: Porringer, circa 1740, in Private Collection. D: 5"
  
  Engraved F over T H for Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Fitch. ¹⁴

Benjamin married Eunice Burr on 22 Nov 1730 in Fairfield CT. (Eunice Burr was born in 1710 in Fairfield CT and was christened on 2 Jul 1710 in Fairfield CT.)