• Born: 7 Apr 1793, Haverhill MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1806 to CHURCHILL & TREADWELL in Boston MA ¹
  

• He worked in 1813-1830 as a silversmith in Boston MA

• Countermarked coin, c 1813
  Private Collection
  

• Master to Obadiah Rich Abt 1821 in Boston MA. ¹

• Master to Henry Haddock Abt 1824 in Boston MA. ¹

• Place spoon, c 1825
  Harvard Art Museum
  l: 6"
  From a large set of various spoons bought for use in the college Commons.

• Master to Charles West in Boston MA. ¹

• Master to J. Millar in Boston MA. ¹

• Flynt & Fales:, . ³ Listed as "Silver Plater" in the Boston Directory, 1821, and as silversmith between 1825-30. Retired in 1830. The Columbian Centinel (June 23, 1832) lists death of a Moses Morse, age 30, but does not indicate whether or not he was the silversmith of that name. First Church Unitarian in Cambridge, and First Congregational Church in Duxbury have silver with his mark.