Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)
Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 105
moulded, and supportedon a moulded base, similar in shape to thosemade in Holland and England in the sixteenthand seventeenth centuries. Such were made fora century for use in the churches of New Eng-land. One of theearliest dated ex-amples of this plaintype (Illus. 26) be-longs to the FirstChurch… … 26. John Allen. H. 5I in. belong who did not pay a tax on £100 of estate.John Appleton was one of the signers of theloyalist petition of 1666. Judge Sewall in hisdiary describes John Appleton as an Israeliteindeed, a great Ornament of that Church andTown. He married Priscilla, the daughter ofRev.…
Silverwork -- United States
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