• Born: 7 Apr 1793, Haverhill MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: CHURCHILL & TREADWELL, about 1806, in Boston MA. ¹

• He worked in 1813-1830 as a silversmith in Boston MA

• Example: Countermarked coin, circa 1813, in Private Collection.

• Master: Obadiah Rich, about 1821, in Boston MA. ¹

• Master: Henry Haddock, about 1824, in Boston MA. ¹

• Example: Place spoon, circa 1825, in Harvard Art Museum. L: 6"
  From a large set of various spoons bought for use in the college Commons.

• Master: Charles West, in Boston MA. ¹

• Master: J. Millar, in Boston MA. ¹

• Flynt & Fales. Listed as "Silver Plater" in the Boston Directory, 1821, and as silversmith between 1825-30. Retired in 1830. The Columbian Centinel (June 23, 1832) lists death of a Moses Morse, age 30, but does not indicate whether or not he was the silversmith of that name. First Church Unitarian in Cambridge, and First Congregational Church in Duxbury have silver with his mark. ³