• Born: 8 Aug 1777, Queen Caroline Parish MD
• Died: 27 Aug 1864, Woodville Baltimore MD

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

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• He worked circa 1800-1810 as a silversmith in Georgetown MD ³⁰

• Master: Greenbury Griffith, on 17 Mar 1802-20 May 1807, in Georgetown MD. ⁴³

• He worked in 1810-1816 as a silversmith in Baltimore MD from shop at 74 Baltimore Street. ³⁰

• Example: Porringer, circa 1810, in Baltimore Museum Art. H: 2 7/16"
  d: 3" (base)
  wt: 5 oz, 17 dwt ³⁰

• Master: his nephew Henry Chew Gaither, circa 1810, in Baltimore MD.

• Master: Benjamin McKenny Riggs, about 1812, in Baltimore MD.

• Partnership: Henry Griffith (probably), in 1816-1818, in Baltimore MD. As RIGGS & GRIFFITH with a shop at 74 Baltimore Street. ³⁰

• He worked in 1819-1848 as a silversmith in Baltimore MD from shop at Pratt and Hanover Streets, 1824-1831; at 38 Hanover Street, 1835; on German Street west of Hanover, 1840; and at 5 South Howard Street, 1845-1848. ³⁰