Silver from the First Church of Deerfield, Massachusetts

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2003 by Donald R. Friary

(8) Hannah Beaman probate file.

(9). Barbara McLean Ward, '"In a Feasting Posture': Communion Vessels and Community Values in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century New England," Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 1988), pp. 21-22; and Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths, pp. 381-382.

(10) Richard L. Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992), pp. 172-180.

(11) Thomas Wells of Deerfield, will, April 3, 1750, box 157, no. 30, Hampshire County Registry of Probate.

(12) Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, will, May 3, 1757, box 156, no. 59, Hampshire County Registry. of Probate.

(13) Account book, Elijah Williams, Ledger C, no. 3, p. 259 (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library, Deerfield, Massachusetts).

(14) Samuel Barnard of Salem, Massachusetts, will, June 20, t755, Barnard papers, box 1, folder 8 (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library.).

(15) Receipt from Paul Revere to Joseph Bamard, Boston, June 14, 1765 (First Church of Deerfield papers, on deposit ibid.). The receipt is illustrated in Emma Lewis Coleman, A Historic" and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield (n. p., Boston, 1907), facing p. 75. First Church in Salem, Unitarian, deacons' records, 1713-1847, December 9, 1814 (First Church of Salem Archives). Paul Revere, waste book, vol. 1 (1761-1783), pp. 20-21 (Revere family papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston).

(16) Elijah Arms of Deerfield, will, March 1, 1798, box 5, no. 18 (Hampshire County Registry of Probate); and Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths, pp. 802-803.

(17) John Williams Jr. of Deerfield, will, September 13, 1813, no. 5, p. 423, Franklin County Registry of Probate, Franklin Country Courthouse, Greenfield, Massachusetts.

(18) George Arms of Deerfield, will, March 23, 1819, no. 138, Franklin County Registry of Probate.

(19) Receipt from Lewis Cary to Henry Williams, Boston, July 31, 1820; and Henry Williams to Deacon Justin Hitchcock, Boston, August 4, 1820 (Filet Church of Deerfield papers, on deposit, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library).

(20) Abigail Norton of Deerfield, will, July 15, 1806, box 106, no. 23, Hampshire Registry of Probate.

(21) E. Alfred Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches (National Society of Colonial Dames of America, Letchworth, England, 1913), pp. 35, 42, 44, 46, 47, 67, 70, 73, 78, 79, 103, 107-109, 114, 119, 124, 125,241,257, 258,259, 264, 265,268, 295,299-301,331,368,412,419, 425,429, 431,438,452,471, 472, 474, mad 476.

(22) Ibid., pp. 46-47.

(23) Receipt from the Connecticut Valley Historical Society to Deerfield First Congregational Church, August 5, 1949; and "In Vault at First National Bank--Greenfield--May 1960" (typescript, First Church of Deerfield papers, on deposit, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library).

DONALD R. FRIARY was executive director o/ Historic Deerfield, Incorporated, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, from 1975 to 2002. He is now director emeritus and senior research fellow