• Born: 14 Dec 1700, Boston MA
• Died: Sep 1740, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1715 to John Dixwell in Boston MA
  

• He worked circa 1723-1740 as a silversmith in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• Nutmeg grater, c 1725
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  h: 3/4"
  w: 1 3/8"
  l: 1 3/4"
  wt: 1 oz
  

• Buhler:, . ¹⁰
  In 1735, Kneeland fashioned a 13 1/2" baptismal bowl from a £50 bequest of Jeremiah Atwater left to the First Church of Christ, New Haven. Kneeland died intestate with Nathaniel Green appointed adminstrator. His estate was insolvent and tools and a brass button mold were among the items inventoried by Jabez Hunt, David Culter, and Joseph Bradford.