• Born: 4 Nov 1674, Newburyport MA
• Marriage (1): Susanna Edwards on 16 Mar 1699 in Boston MA
• Died: 15 May 1749, Boston MA
• Buried: 27 May 1749, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1687 to Jeremiah Dummer in Boston MA ¹
  

• Candlestick, 1695-1700
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  h: 9 1/4"
  w: 6 3/8" (base)
  wt: 20 oz
  One of a pair. Engraved with Bowdoin crest; made for Pierre Boudion (sic).

• Appointed in 1704 as Constable in Boston MA he declined to serve and paid his fine. ¹⁰

• Forks, c 1710
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  l: 7 5/16"
  wt: 2 oz, 18 dwt (pair)
  Traditionally a part of Hannah Arnold's wedding silver (married Samuel Welles, 1719), but probably of earlier date.

• Gold locket, c 1710
  Yale University
  h: 3/4"
  w: 7/8"

John married Susanna Edwards on 16 Mar 1699 in Boston MA. (Susanna Edwards was born about 1676 in Newburyport MA and died in 1725.)