Hurd, Jacob (1702/03-1758)

Name:

Hurd, Jacob (1702/03-1758)

Title:

Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1743-1758
First Sergeant, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1745
Captain, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Member, New South Church, Boston, 1721

Born:

02/12/1702/03

Birthplace:

Charlestown, MA

Died:

02/17/1758

Death Location:

Roxbury, MA

Residence:

Boston, MA 1702-1755
Roxbury, MA 1755-1758

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Goldsmith
Silversmith 1724-1755
Prolific maker of church and tutorial silver, as well as presentation cups.

Father:

Hurd, Jacob (1676-1749)

Mother:

Tufts, Elizabeth (1673-1721)

Relations:

Trained son, Nathaniel Hurd
Trained son, Benjamin Hurd
Trained Houghton Perkins
Trained Daniel Henchman
Trained Benjamin Goodwin

Spouse:

Elizabeth Mason (1705-1764), May 20, 1725

Children:

Jacob, born 1726; died 1777+
John, born 1727
Nathaniel, born 1729/30; died 1777; silversmith & engraver; not married; bequeathed printing press and engraving tools to his nephew, John Mason Furnass
Elizabeth, born 1730; m. Daniel Henchman, apprentice to Jacob Hurd
Prudence
Prudence, born 1733; died 1736
Ann, born 1735; died 1777+
Prudence, born 1736; died 1737
Sarah, born 1738
Benjamin, born 1739; died 1781; Boston silversmith
Mary, born 1740
Mary, born 1742; died before 1777
Joseph, born 1744/45; died 1747/48
Prudence, born 1749

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, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation,1968), 255.

Hollis French, Jacob Hurd and His Sons Nathaniel and Benjamin, Silversmiths, 1702-1781. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press, 1939.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips. (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 578-615.