• Born: Abt 1746, Newburyport MA
• Marriage (1): Pheobe Woodman on 28 Dec 1769 in Newburyport MA
• Died: 15 Sep 1783, Newburyport MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• Alternate Mark.

• Simple Elegance. Silversmith working in Newburyport, c. 1775. His mark is on a large spoon which was donated to a church in Newburyport by Joshua Titcomb, yeoman, in his will in 1770. A cann with his mark was on display at the Rhode Island School of Design. When Davis died in 1783, he left his business to his 17 year-old apprentice, Jacob Perkins, who later moved to Philadelphia. Elias may have made the spoon recovered by William Coffin Little in 1775. In a deed dated 21 July 1778, Elias Davis of Newburyport, goldsmith, purchased a house and land in Newburyport. Probate records of 1797 establish a son, Elias Davis, born 1782, who became a silversmith and worked in Newburyport, Boston (by 1805), and Gardiner, Maine (by 1828). ²

• Example: Cann, circa 1775, in Private Collection. H: 5 3/4"
  wt: 14 oz
  Engraved "Moses Brown to The Church of Christ in Brownville 1823"

• Master: Jacob Perkins, about 1779, in Newburyport MA. It is traditionally accepted that Davis left his business to his apprentice, who was 17 at the time of his master's death. ³

Elias married Pheobe Woodman on 28 Dec 1769 in Newburyport MA. (Pheobe Woodman was born about 1748.)