• Born: 20 Nov 1773, Plymouth MA
• Died: 1819, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• He worked circa 1790-1805 as a silversmith in Boston MA

• Example: Flagon, circa 1800, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. H: 15 5/8"
  d: 5 3/4" (of foot)
  wt: 38 oz, 11 dwt
  One of a pair. Engraved in wreath surround: The / Property of the Church / at / West Boston ¹⁰

• Example: Jug, circa 1800, in Private Collection. H: 7"
  wt: 15 oz.
  Engraved "BJB over Benjamin and Judith Bussey"

• Buhler. In 1802 he had made a flagon for the South Congregational Church in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1805, when his absence from the Boston Directory is conspicuous, he made flagons and plates for the First Religious Society in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Churchill and Treadwell made silver dated in 1813, "Presented by the Citizens of Boston ... to Com. O. H. Perry . . ."; Daniel Treadwell, younger brother of Isaac Dodge Treadwell of Newburyport, is recorded to have served as Churchill's apprentice and very briefly as his partner. In the Boston Directory of 1811, Churchill's shop was at the 1809 address but his house was in Newbury Place. The church in Bedford has a flagon dated 1817 and two beakers dated 1818, the year before he is thought to have died.
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• Master: Hazen Morse, about 1803, in Boston MA. ¹

• Example: Claret jug, circa 1805, in Private Collection. H: 11 3/4"
  wt: 35.2 oz

• Master: Daniel Treadwell, about 1808, in Boston MA. ¹

• Partnership: Daniel Treadwell, circa 1810-1813, in Boston MA. As CHURCHILL & TREADWELL, with a shop at 88 Newbury Street in Boston. ³

• Example: Jug by CHURCHILL & TREADWELL, circa 1810, in Private Collection. H: 9 1/2"
  wt: 27.5 oz.
  Engraved "Benjamin and Judith Bussey"

• Master: Moses Morse, about 1806, in Boston MA. As member of CHURCHILL & TREADWELL ¹

• Flynt & Fales: 1809, in Boston MA. Listed in the Boston Directory, his shop being at 88 Newbury Street, his house on Pleasant Street. ³

• Flynt & Fales: 1810, in Boston MA. A member of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association. ³

• Master: Benjamin Bailey, about 1810, in Boston MA. As member of CHURCHILL & TREADWELL ¹

• Master: Lewis Carey, about 1811, in Boston MA. As member of CHURCHILL & TREADWELL ¹

• Example: Wine cooler, circa 1813, in Mead Art Museum. H: 9 9/16"
  w: 8 1/2"
  Engraved "Sep^r 10^th 1813 / Signalized our first triumph in squadron / A very superior British Force on Lake Erie / was entirely subdued by / Com. O. H. Perry / whose gallantry in action is equalled only / by his humility in victory"

• Buhler: 1815, in Boston MA. One of the appraisers of Joseph Loring's estate. ¹⁰

• Buhler: 1817, in Boston MA. The children and heirs of Thomas Revere requested that "Mr. Jesse Churchill Silversmith of Boston" be appointed administrator of the estate. ¹⁰