• Born: 30 Mar 1805, Philadelphia PA
• Marriage (1): Frances Biddle on 8 Oct 1827 in Philadelphia PA
• Died: 17 Nov 1888, Germantown PA

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1818 to Phillip Garrett in Philadelphia PA ¹
  

• He was a partner in 1828-1835 with Phillip Garrett in Philadelphia PA as PHILIP GARRETT & SON ⁴

• Receipt, 7 Aug 1835
  Winterthur Library
  For goods bought from DUBOSQ & BATON.

• He worked in 1836-1860 as a silversmith and jeweler in Philadelphia PA with a shop at 712 and later 122 Chestnut Street.

• Watch paper (used as a box label), c 1840
  Winterthur Library
  

• Box label, c 1840
  Winterthur Library
  

• He appeared on the 1850 census taken at Philadelphia PA, listed as a jeweler.

• Master to Samuel Biddle Abt 1857 in Philadelphia PA. ¹

• He appeared on the 1860 census taken at Philadelphia PA, listed as a jeweler.

• , . ¹ Served as corporal in Fiftieth Regiment, Company E of the Reading Light Infantry during Civil War

• He appeared on the 1870 census taken at Philadelphia PA, listed as a retired jeweler.

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Philadelphia PA, listed as a gentleman.

Thomas married Frances Biddle, daughter of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, on 8 Oct 1827 in Philadelphia PA. (Frances Biddle was born on 29 Nov 1803 in Philadelphia PA and died on 5 Sep 1873 in Germantown PA.)