Research Catalog

Title

Joseph Richardson and family, Philadelphia silversmiths.

Author

Fales, Martha Gandy.

Publication

Middletown, Conn., Published for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Wesleyan University Press [1974]

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Additional Authors

Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Description

xviii, 340 p. illus.; 28 cm.

Summary

A history and a genealogy of the descendants of Francis Richardson born 25 Nov 1681 in New York. He married Elizabeth Growden on the 18 Apr 1705. They had six children. He died in 1729. He was a silversmith in Philadelphia. Three generations of Richardson were silversmiths in Philadelphia in the 18th century.

Subject

• Richardson family
• Silversmiths > Philadelphia

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [312]-320.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Francis Richardson, Silversmith (1681-1729) -- Francis Richardson, Jr. (1705-1782), Silversmith and Merchant -- Joseph Richardson (1711-1784): His Life -- Joseph Richardson: His House and Shop -- Joseph Richardson: His Silver -- Joseph Richardson, Jr. (1752-1831), and Nathaniel Richardson (1754-1827): Their Lives -- Joseph Richardson, Jr., and Nathaniel Richardson: Their Silver -- Commonplace Book of Joseph Richardson -- Settlement of the Hulbeart Estate -- Scales and Weights Sold by Joseph Richardson -- Letter Book of Joseph Richardson -- Inventory of the Shop of Joseph and Nathaniel Richardson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0819540765

LCCN

^^^74005911^//r85

OCLC

• 914775
• SCSB-10093259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library