Drown, Thomas Pickering (1782-1849)

Name:

Drown, Thomas Pickering (1782-1849)

Title:

Secretary, Associated Mechanics and Manufacturers of the State of New Hampshire, 1808
Fire Warden, Town of Portsmouth, 1814
Selectman, Town of Portsmouth
Justice of the Peace, Town of Portsmouth, 1821-1823, 1830
Town Clerk, Town of Portsmouth, 1817, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825
Clerk, Bank of the United States, Portsmouth
Subscriber, Singing School, Portsmouth, 1808
Subscriber, Vocal Instruction School, Portsmouth, 1819
Cashier, People's Bank, Bangor, ME
Member, Unitarian Church

Other Names:

Drowne, Thomas Pickering

Born:

04/19/1782

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

06/03/1849

Death Location:

Philadelphia, PA

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1782-1835
Bangor, ME 1835-1839
Philadelphia, PA 1839-1849

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith
Merchant
Banker

Purchased stock and moved to shop of Joseph Clark, December 28, 1811.

Father:

Drowne, Samuel (1749-1815)

Mother:

Pickering, Mary (1743-1841)

Relations:

Grandparents: Dorothy Stover (c.1693-; b. Maine) and Thomas Pickering (c.1689-1746; b. Portsmouth; d. Nova Scotia), of Portsmouth, NH; Sara Reed and Rev. Samuel Drowne.

Spouse:

Mehitable Cutts Appleton (1781-1862), November 1, 1806

Children:

William
Anne Peirce
Caroline Elizabeth, born 1821; died 1822
Sarah Mehitable Appleton

Notes:

Charles W. Brewster, Rambles About Portsmouth. Second Series. Slketches of Persons, Localities, and incidents of Two Centuries: Principally from Tradition and Unpublished Documents. (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: L. W. Brewster, 1869), 132, 240-243.

Stephen Decatur, "The Drowne Silversmiths of Portsmouth," American Collector, September, 1940, 8-9.

Stephen Decatur, "The Drowne Silversmiths of Portsmouth," A Treasury of Old Silver, New York: 1947.

James H. Fitts, History of Newfields, New Hampshire, 1638-1911. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1912), 485-489.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver. With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968, 207.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 95.

"Thomas P. Drown" Advertisement, Political Star, Portsmouth, NH, October 4, 1804, 3.

"Singing School" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, October 18, 1808, 3.

"Mechanic Association Annual Meeting" Advertisement, Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, November 12, 1808, 1.

"Thomas P. Drown" Advertisement, Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, December 28, 1811, 3.

"Thomas P. Drown" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, January 5, 1813, 3.

"Vocal Instruction" Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, October 26, 1819, 4.

"Notice, Thomas P. Drown," Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, January 24, 1826, 4.

Death Notice, Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 9, 1849.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 12, 1849.

Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA