Munson Jarvis

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

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• He worked from circa 1765 to 1776 as a silversmith in Stamford CT a Loyalist, Munson escaped Stamford in 1776, travelling to Long Island where he was active in recruiting men for the Prince of Wales American Regiment.
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• Tankard, c 1765
Congrestional Ecclesiastical Society Green Farms CT ¹¹
h: 4 1/8"
One of a pair. Engraved The / Church of Christ / in / Greenfarms / AD 1765 (in circular cartouche) and A gift to the Church of Christ at Greenfarms by M^rs Abigail Couch A.D. 1765 around base. Abigail Jennings married Simon Couch in 1721; her father was one of the signitories to the first covenant of the church in 1715.

• He worked from circa 1780 to 1783 as a silversmith in New York at the end of the war in 1783, he was forced to leave New York with the general evacuation of Loyalists, and settled in Saint John, New Brunswick.

• He worked from circa 1783 to 1820 as an ironmonger and hardware merchant in St Johns New Brunswick Canada
He also insured ships and cargoes, and developed a successful trading business with England, the West Indies, the United States, and through the St. John River system, into the interior of the Province. ⁴

Munson married Mary Arnold on 4 Mar 1769 in Stamford CT. (Mary Arnold was born about 1746 in Stamford CT and died on 20 Oct 1831.)