Gerrish, Andrew (1784-1835)

Name:

Gerrish, Andrew (1784-1835)

Title:

Captain, New Hampshire Militia
Constable, Town of Portsmouth 1822, 1826, 1828
Jailor, Rockingham County Jail, 1815-1835

Born:

02/08/1784

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

05/07/1835

Death Location:

Portsmouth, NH

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith
Constable
Trader, 1835

Father:

Gerrish, Timothy (1756-1815)

Mother:

Patterson, Dorothy (1756-1845)

Relations:

Siblings, all b. Portsmouth, NH:
Gerrish, Abigail (1780-1803)
Gerrish, Sarah (Sally) (1782-1871)
Gerrish, Joseph (1786-1789)
Gerrish, Thomas Patterson (1789-1811)
Gerrish, Dorothy (Dolly) (1791-1867; m1 William Senter the Portsmouth cabinetmaker, 1808; m2 Thomas Currier, 1829; res. Portsmouth, NH; 9 children, including William Senter the silversmith/clockmaker, who apprentices to his uncle Oliver in Portland, ME)
Gerrish, Lydia (1793-1868; m. John Dodge; res. Exeter, NH; 7 children; maker of embroidery 1946.003)
Gerrish, Oliver (1796-1888; silversmith; moved to Portland, ME c.1819; m. Sarah Little; children; silver/clock master to two nephews)
Gerrish, Caroline (1798-1871; m. Nathaniel Pearson, 1821; res. Exeter, NH; 6 children, including Nathaniel who apprentices to his uncle Oliver Gerrish)
Gerrish, Mary (1801-1876)
Grandparents: Abigail Pickering (1733-1833) and Thomas Patterson (c.1729) of Newington and Portsmouth, NH; Hannah Pickering (c.1724-; sister of Abigail, above) and Andrew Gerrish (1724-).
Great-grandparents: Mary Downing and Capt. Thomas Pickering; Sarah Eliot (1687-1770) & Timothy Gerrish (1684-1755) of Kittery, ME.

Spouse:

Phebe Bickford, June 1813

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.

William G. Hennessy, "The Silversmiths of Portsmouth," New Hampshire Profiles, May, 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. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 101.

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

"Communication," Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, June 27, 1807, 3.

Marriage Notice, Intelligencer, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 10, 1813, 3.

Death Notice, Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 9, 1835.

Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH