• Born: 5 Jan 1692, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Abigail Cheever on 3 Jun 1714 in Boston MA
• Died: 23 Jan 1745, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark (Tentative attribution per Winterthur.)

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed circa 1706 to John Coney in Boston MA ¹
  

• Gold buttons, c 1710-1720
  Yale University ¹³
  d: 7/16"
  Engraved HANNAH CARTER on face for Hannah (Gookin) Carter.

• Candlestick, c 1720
  Winterthur Library ⁷
  h: 7 3/16"
  w: 4 7/16" (base)
  wt: 14 oz, 16 dwt
  One of a pair, made en suite with a tray and candle snuffer. Engraved W over D + S for Daniel and Sarah (Hill) Warner.

• Master to John Blowers 1724-1732 in Boston MA. ⁹

• Master to Samuel Gray Abt 1724 in Boston MA. ⁹

• Porringer, c 1725-1730
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  h: 1 5/8"
  d: 5 5/8" (of bowl)
  wt: 6 oz, 14 dwt
  Original owner unknown. Engraved later C over I S for John and Susannah (Greenleaf) Coburn.

• 1730: he debited the estate of Mr. William Smith "to six funerall Rings £ 10-6-9." ³

• Teaspoon, c 1735
  Private Collection
  l: 4 5/8"
  Engraved I * S. A strainer spoon by Burt with identical monogram is recorded by Winterthur.

• Caster, c 1735
  Essex Institute ¹⁹
  h: 3 11/16"
  wt: 2 oz, 10 dwt
  Originally owned by silversmith Daniel Northey. Engraved 1768 / N over W + R for William and Rebecca (Collins) Northey.

• Mug, c 1740
  Private Collection
  h: 5 1/4"
  d: 3 3/38" (base)
  wt: 10 oz, 10 dwt.
  

• Thimble, c 1740
  Historical Society York PA ³²
  

• Punch bowl, c 1740
  Private Collection
  d: 7 5/8"
  Engraved around the body with the name and armes of Jonathan Mountfort Junr., Samuel Martain, Lemuel Gowen, John Greenleaf, Kenelm Winslow, and Joseph Grant Junr.
  

• Tankard, c 1745
  Yale University ¹³
  h: 8 1/4"
  d: 5 7/16" (base)
  wt: 25 oz, 4 dwt
  Engraved on front with Moulton arms, "M over I H" on handle, and a map of Louisburg, Taken by the English / June 17, 1745 on handle terminal. By tradition, given to Jeremiah Moulton by Sir William Pepperell for his part in the capture of Louisburg.

• Flynt & Fales:, . ³ Burt held town offices and at his death his amassed estate totaled £6,460. The inventory of his tools, probably made by William Simpkins, who was one of the appraisers of his estate, was given in the catalogue of the first exhibition of American silver at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1906.

John married Abigail Cheever on 3 Jun 1714 in Boston MA. (Abigail Cheever was born on 20 May 1690 in Boston MA.)