Gerrish, Timothy (1756-1815)

Name:

Gerrish, Timothy (1756-1815)

Title:

Tax Collector, Town of Portsmouth
Fire Warden, Town of Portsmouth
Deputy Sheriff, Rockingham County
Jailor, Prison at Portsmouth

Born:

04/07/1756

Birthplace:

Dover, NH

Died:

12/30/1815

Death Location:

Portsmouth, NH

Residence:

Dover, NH
Portsmouth, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith

Father:

Gerrish, Andrew (1724-)

Mother:

Pickering, Hannah (c.1724-)

Relations:

Sons, Andrew and Oliver Gerrish, were also silversmiths.
Timothy Gerrish's mother's half-sister, Mary (Molly) Pickering (1743-1841), married Portsmouth silversmith Samuel Drowne II (1749-1815).

Spouse:

Dorothy Patterson (1756-1845), February 6, 1780

Children:

Abigail, born August 26, 1780; died April 3, 1803
Sarah (Sally), born March 7, 1782, died July 15, 1871
Andrew, born February 4, 1784; died May 5, 1835
Joseph, born June 8, 1786; died January 9, 1789
Thomas Patterson, born December 27, 1788; died February 17, 1811
Dorothy (Dolly), born January 1, 1791; died September 27, 1867
Lydia, born Auguat 20, 1793; died November 5, 1868
Oliver, born January 4, 1796; died December 3, 1888
Caroline, born July 8, 1798; died February 19, 1871
Mary, born April 26, 1801; died May 3, 1876

Notes:

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 225-226.

William G. Hennessy, "The Silversmiths of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Profiles, 1955.

George Thomas Little, et. al., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. Volume III. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909), 1265.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Adams Brown Company, 1983), 4, 31, 33, 50, 76, 102, 129.

"Records of the South Church of Portsmouth, N.H.," New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 82(January 1928), 37.

Delinquent Tax Notice, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 5, 1789.

Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 23, 1806.

Obituary, Intelligencer, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 4, 1816.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives