Drowne, Benjamin (1759-1793)

Name:

Drowne, Benjamin (1759-1793)

Title:

Fife Major, Col. Thomas Bartlett's Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, 1780
Member, St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., Portsmouth, 1793

Born:

07/14/1759

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

12/21/1793

Death Location:

Portsmouth, NH

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith

Father:

Drowne, Samuel (1721-1770)

Mother:

Reed, Sarah (1722-1784)

Relations:

Brother of Samuel Drowne (1749-1815), silversmith;

Spouse:

Frances Gardner (1758-1833), May 26, 1782, Portsmouth

Children:

Benjamin, born 1783

Notes:

Baptised March 2, 1760, 3rd Independent English Church.

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 Slketches of Persons, Localities, and incidents of Two Centuries: Principally from Tradition and Unpublished Documents.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.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Gazette, December 21, 1793.