Moulton, Joseph (1744-1816)

Name:

Moulton, Joseph (1744-1816)

Other Names:

Moulton, Joseph III

Born:

09/01/1744

Birthplace:

Newburyport, MA

Died:

03/12/1816

Death Location:

Newburyport, MA

Residence:

Newburyport, MA

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith, c. 1764-1810

Father:

Moulton, William (1720-1793)

Mother:

Greenleaf, Lydia (1723-)

Relations:

Partnership, Moulton & Bradbury, Newburyport, 1796
(Joseph Moulton and Theophilus Bradbury)
Parents: William Moulton (3rd) (1720-1793; silversmith in Newburyport, MA, Hempsted, NH, and Marietta, OH) and Lydia Greenleaf (1723; b. Newburyport, MA; d. Marietta, OH)
Uncle: Joseph Moulton II (1724-1795); silversmith of Newburyport, MA; m. Anna Boardman)
Grandparents: Mary Noyes & Joseph Moulton; Lydia Brown and Edmund Greenleaf

Spouse:

Noyes, Abigail (1739-1818), 1765

Children:

Moulton, Abigail
Moulton, Ebenezer Noyes (1768-1824); silversmith, Boston
Moulton, Judith
Moulton, Joseph
Moulton, William (1772-1861); b. Newburyport, MA; silversmith; m. Judith Noyes; children
Moulton, John
Moulton, Enoch (1780-1818); silversmith of Portland, ME
Moulton, Phebe Lane
Moulton, Abel (1784-1850); silversmith of Newburyport, MA; took over his father's shop after his father's death
Moulton, Nancy

Notes:

Stephen Decatur, "The Moulton Silversmiths," Antiques, January, 1941, 15.

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: Heritage Foundation, 1968), 282.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers. A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow & John Marshall Phillips� (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 714-719.

"Plated Buckles...Moulton & Bradbury" Advertisement, Impartial Herald, Newburyport, MA, February 23, 1796, 3.

Dissolution of Copartnership Advertisement, Political Gazette, Newburyport, MA, June 2, 1796, 23.