Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    volume lxx

    New England Silver & Silversmithing 1620–1815

    edited by

    Jeannine Falino & Gerald W. R. Ward

    boston

    The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Distributed by the University Press of Virginia

    2001

    Officers of the Society

    • Frederick D. Ballou, President
    • Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President
    • Celeste Walker, Vice President
    • Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary
    • Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary
    • William B. Perkins, Treasurer

    Committee of Publications

    • Pauline R. Maier, Chair
    • Robert C. Anderson
    • Frederick D. Ballou
    • Malcolm Freiberg
    • Harley Peirce Holden
    • Christopher M. Jedrey
    • Conrad Edick Wright

    Editor of Publications

    • John W. Tyler

    Assistant Editor of Publications

    • Anne Decker Cecere

    The Riddell family coat of arms illustrated on the title page is engraved on a silver punch bowl made by John Coney (1655/56–1722) of Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1708–9 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour; 1972.913).

    Copyright © 2001

    The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    isbn 0–9620737–5-x

    printed from the income of the sarah louise edes fund