Drowne, Samuel (1749-1815)

Name:

Drowne, Samuel (1749-1815)

Title:

Signer, Test Association, Town of Portsmouth, August 14, 1776
Continental Army, 1778
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1800
Selectman, Town of Portsmouth, 1799, 1800, 1803, 1804, 1805
Assessor, Town of Portsmouth, 1794, 1795, 1803
Member, Third or Independent English Church, Portsmouth

Other Names:

Drown, Samuel

Born:

10/25/1749

Birthplace:

Coventry, RI

Died:

08/07/1815

Death Location:

Portsmouth, NH

Residence:

Coventry, RI 1749-1758
Portsmouth, NH 1758-1815

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith, shop at junction of Jefferson and Water Streets, opposite Long Wharf in Portsmouth, NH

Father:

Drowne, Samuel (1721-1770)

Mother:

Reed, Sarah (1722-1784)

Relations:

Brother of Benjamin Drowne (1759-1793), goldsmith and silversmith

Spouse:

Mary Pickering (1743-1841)

Children:

Lydia, born 1774, Portsmouth, NH
Sarah, born 1775, Portsmouth, NH
Elizabeth, born 1778, Portsmouth, NH
Samuel, born 1779, Portsmouth; died 1797
Thomas Pickering, born 1782, Portsmouth; died 1849, Philadelphia, PA; m. Mehitable Cutts Appleton; silversmith, goldsmith, banker.
Daniel Pickering, born 1784, Portsmouth; died 1863

Notes:

James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island., 1636-1850. First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths A Family Register for the People. Volume I Part IV. Coventry. (Providence, Rhode Island: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891), 71.

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 Slketches of Persons, Localities, and incidents of Two Centuries: Principally from Tradition and Unpublished Documents.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. (Exeter, New Hampshire: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 95.

Advertisement, Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, May 19, 1804, 4.

Death Notice, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 8, 1815.