• Born: 28 Sep 1680, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Mary Tay on 13 Jan 1708 in Boston MA
• Died: Abt 1721, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1693 to Jeremiah Dummer in Boston MA ⁹
  Suggested by his father's business association with Dummer.

• He worked about 1702-1711 as a silversmith in Boston MA
  Edward Winslow and James Barnes, goldsmiths, gave surety for Henry Hurst for the sum of £200 before the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County. His inheritance from his father's estate was apparently sufficient for him to give up his career. ⁹

James married Mary Tay on 13 Jan 1708 in Boston MA. (Mary Tay was born on 16 Mar 1688 in Billerica MA and died on 30 Oct 1721.)