Hardy, Stephen (1781-1843)

Name:

Hardy, Stephen (1781-1843)

Title:

Member, St. John's Episcopal Church, Portsmouth
Subscriber, St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Dover, 1839

Born:

07/12/1781

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

07/17/1843

Death Location:

Dover, NH

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1781- 1830
Boston, MA
Dover, NH 1833, 1837-1840, 1843

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Goldsmith, Silversmith, Jeweler 1803-1815
Commission Merchant, Auctioneer 1816-1830
Merchant, Variety Store, Dover, 1833
Clerk, Great Falls Factory Store, 1837-1838
Grocer, Dover, 1839

Father:

Hardy, Stephen (1729-1797)

Mother:

Muchmore, Rebecca (1745-1839)

Relations:

Apprenticed to Paul Revere II (goldsmith) in Boston; trained with William Simes (brother-in-law); married Mary Burleigh.
Sibling:
Hardy, Hannah (m. silversmith William C. Simes)

Spouse:

Hill, Mary Burleigh (1792-1867), 1809, Exeter

Children:

Horace S., born June 26, 1810; died May 16, 1830
Charles W. born February 18, 1812; died March 29, 1840
Marcia S., born 1827; died 1908

Notes:

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachsetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 242.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 108-109.

Portsmouth Town Records, Volume 11, page 10, New Hampshire State Libarary (Microfilm)

Portsmouth Directory 1821, 1827.

The Dover Directory, March, 1833, Containing the Names of All Head of Families, Males of 21 Years, and All Others Doing Business in Dover Village...(Dover, New Hampshire: Samuel C. Stevens, 1833), 39.

"Stephen Hardy...Gold & Silver Smith's Business," Republican Ledger and Portsmouth Price Current, Portsmouth, NH, March 1, 1803, 3.

Marriage Notice, New-Hampshire Patriot, Concord, New Hampshire, September 8, 1809, 3.

"Cheap Goods, Stephen Hardy," Portsmouth Oracle, Portsmouth, NH, December 29, 1810, 1.

"Selling Off, Stephen Hardy," Advertisement, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, December 3, 1811, 3.

"Dye-House Agent, Stephen Hardy," Advertisement, The Intelligencer, Portsmouth, NH, February 1, 1816, 3.

"New Auctioneer, Market Street, Stephen Hardy," Advertisement. The Intelligencer, Portsmouth, NH, March 14, 1816, 4.

"Auctioneers & Commission Merchants" Advertisement, Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, NH, February 14, 1824, 1.

"Subscribers, St. Thomas's Episcopal Church," Dover Enquirer, Dover, NH, October 1, 1839, 3.

"Stephen Hardy...Groceries," Dover Enquirer, Dover, NH, December 10, 1839, 4.

Death Notice, Exeter News-Letter, Exeter, New Hampshire, July 31, 1843.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 25, 1843.

Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH