Inscription:
The G[ift of Mr Jon]athan Stone to the first C[hurch of Chr]ist
In Watertown
Height, 7± in.; diameter of the mouth, 4 in., and of the base, 5' in.
Maker's mark: 3   , for Samuel Burrill of Boston, circa i7 3 5 -
The donor was probably the Jonathan Stone who married (i), November ii5,
1699, Ruth Eddy, who died October 7, r70 1; (ii), Mary . . . , who died June 24,
1720; and (iii), November 15, 1720, Hepzibah Coolidge, who died March 25,
1763, aged 83. He died January 7, 1754, aged 76.
The fifth tankard is similar to the fourth but is larger and has a turned and twisted
finial, while a plain boss is on the end of the handle. The inscription, which has
been partially obliterated by the unfortunate addition of a spout, was probably:
Watertown Church
Height, 9 in.; diameter of the mouth, 4 in., and of the base, 5 in.
Maker's mark:   A    , for Benjamin Burt of Boston (I 729-I 804).
The sixth tankard is like the fifth, but slightly shorter, and the same inscription
has been partially removed by the same unhappy addition of a spout.
Marked on the bottom is the price, C85 6s. od.
Makers' marks: GO=  , for Samuel Minott of Boston (17 3 2- 180 3) and Josiah
Austin of Charlestown (1719-80)?
Height, 81 in.; diameter of the mouth, 4 in., and of the base, 51 in.
The fifth and sixth tankards were bought from the proceeds of the sale of
old pewter vessels and other funds, as will be observed from the following vote
in the church records, dated October 2 1, 1 799: " Voted that all the Flagons &
other pewter vessells belonging to the Church shall be sold as soon as may be &
that two Silver Tankards shall be purchased for the use of the Church, with the
money belonging to the Church which has not been otherwise appropriated &
that Dean Leathe & Dea" Whitney be requested to purchase them."
The cups have oviform bodies, which are embossed with large acanthus leaves;
the slender stems have beaded mouldings in the middle, and the edges of the
bases are also beaded. Inscription:
Presented by I Mrs. Nat' Amory, Octr i" 18 2 5-
Height, 6- in.; diameter of the mouth, 31 in., and of the base, 2± in.
London date-letter for I 78 1-82. The makers' mark, partially obliterated, is
doubtless that of Andrew Fogelberg and Stephen Gilbert, entered in I 780.
The donor was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Derby) Preble and was born
July 9, 17 8 6, at Newport, Rhode Island. She married Nathaniel, son of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Coffin) Amory, who was born in 1777 and died at Boston in
1842. She died August 14, i865.
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