Historic silver of the Colonies and its makers (1917)
Bigelow, Francis Hill, 1859-1933 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 336
he eighteenth century. A similar porringer (Illus. 205), 4^ inches indiameter, was made by Rene Grignon who diedin 1715 at Norwich, Connecticut. He was aHuguenot silversmith who settled in East Greenwich the later partof the seventeenth cen-tury and in 1696 wentto Boston where he be-came elder of… … 205. 3o6 Historic Silver of the Colonies of ye Towne and settled at Oxford, Massa-chusetts. That there was some business con-nection between Rene Grignon and David Jesse(1670-1705) is shown by the payment of £5 tothe former by the administrator of the latters estate. The in-itials J p are prob-ably…
Silverwork -- United States
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