• Born: 2 Apr 1690, Boston MA
• Christened: 6 Apr 1690, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Dorcas Marshall on 25 Dec 1712 in Boston MA
• Died: 1740, Charleston SC
• Buried: 1 Dec 1740, Charleston SC

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Flynt & Fales:, . ³ He and his wife sold their share in the tavern at the Sign of the Horseshoe to Capt. Jonathan Pollard, whose grandson, Col. Jonathan Pollard, was also a goldsmith. He may have moved to South Carolina as William Pollard, silversmith of Charleston, became a member of the South Carolina Society in 1738, died there in 1740, and was buried New Year's Day 1741, according to St. Philip's Register.

• Apprenticed about 1703 to Edward Winslow in Boston MA ¹
  

• He worked circa 1711-1730 as a silversmith in Boston MA in 1711 permission was granted "To Thomas Powell to Erect a Timber building for a Goldsmith Shop for his son of 15 foot long 12 foot wide and 9 foot stud with a Flatt Roof on his land. . ." ⁹

• Tankard, 1730-1745
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  h: 8 1/2"
  d: 4 13/16" (base)
  wt: 26 oz, 5 1/2 dwt
  The molded dome cover is a later addition

• He worked circa 1730-1731 as a silversmith in Newport RI ⁹

• He worked circa 1731-1737 as a silversmith in Boston MA ⁹

• He worked circa 1738-1740 as a silversmith in Charleston SC ⁹

William married Dorcas Marshall on 25 Dec 1712 in Boston MA. (Dorcas Marshall was born on 17 May 1694-1695 in Boston MA and died on 14 Sep 1770 in Boston MA.)