• Born: 11 Nov 1737, Boston MA
• Died: 23 Apr 1783, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1750 to Thomas or Samuell Edwards in Boston MA ¹
  

• Advertised in the Boston News-Letter (Boston MA), 1758, offering a reward for information about the theft in his shop. ³

• Advertised in the Boston Gazette (Boston MA), 1760-1770, ³

• Teapot, c 1760
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  h: 5 9/16"
  w: 9 7/16"
  wt: 17 oz, 9 dwt

• Tankard, c 1760-1765
  Yale University ¹³
  h: 9 1/16
  d: 5 1/4 (base)
  wt: 30 oz, 19 dwt
  Engraved "MP" on handle for Mary Porter

• Cann, 1765
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹⁰
  h: 5 3/16"
  d: 3 3/8" (base)
  wt: 13 oz, 2 1/2 dwt
  Engraved with Green arms and crest on front; "G over I H" on bottom for Joshua and Hannah (Storer) Green.

• Receipt, 1765
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ¹
  M^r Joshua Green to Joseph Edward Jun^r D^r

  1765
  April	22	To pr Pocket Book Clasps	0 : 7 : 2
  May	11	To pr Tea Tongs	0 : 18 : 18
  	18	To 2 Silver Canns	11 : 18 : 10
  		To 1 Silver Porringer	3 : 11 : 1 1/2
  		To 1 Silver Porringer	3 : 11 : 1 1/2
  June	3	To 2 Silver Castors	4 : 1 : 7 1/2
  	7	To 6 Do Tea Spoons	1 : 5 : 8
  	17	To 6 Do Table Spoons	5 : 9 : 8
  	21	To 1 Do Punch Strainer	2 : 5 : 6
  July	5	To 2 Do Gravy Spoons	3 : 6 : 1 1/2
  	6	To 1 Do Marrow Spoon	0 : 11 : 8
  		To Engraving 12 Crests	0 : 8 :
  		To Do 2 Coats of Arms	0 : 18 : 8
  			35 : 2 : 0

• Flynt & Fales:, . ³ His uncle Samuell bequeathed him "a thimble stamp and a swage for tea and large spoons as a token of my respect to him."

• Flynt & Fales:, . In the manuscript book "Poems, chiefly Descriptive," written by Samuel Davis of Plymouth during 1789-1808, he includes "Joseph Edwards (died 1783 age 45)" with "The eldest of the trade [silver] whom I now recollect. . . . "