Description:
Silver teaspoon with slightly downturned fiddle-end handle, rounded shoulders, and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "N. Harding" in a banner for Newell Harding (1799-1862), and engraved with the initials "JH" in script. The spoon was part of a collection of silver spoons from the Viola Wilby estate. Two tags attached to the spoons read: "Indian House/ 8a" and "12" in a circle on one side and "N. Harding / Haverhill & / Boston / 1796-1862" on the other; and "Julia Hoyt I. H. / daughter of / Col. Elihu Hoyt / sister of Henry King Hoyt / who married Katherine / Wells - Royal's grand/ aunt. She was born / in the Old Indian / House in Deerfield / Sheldon, II: 216/ (from Carrie Wells)." Julia Hoyt (1798-1863) was the daughter of Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833) of Deerfield and sister of Henry King Hoyt (1810-1863) who married Catherine Wells (1805-1891), the daughter of Quartus Wells (1764-1824) of Deerfield, in 1849. in 1848, Heny King Hoyt demolished the "Old Indian House" where Catherine had been born to build a new home for her.. Newell Harding (1799-1862) apprenticed with Hazen Morse (b.1790) from 1820-1825, and worked in Boston as a silversmith from 1826-1851. Harding was in partnership with Francis Low Harding, Alexander H, Lewis, and Lewis B. Kimball from 1851-1859, and with Francis Low Harding and Lewis B. Kimball from 1859-1862 as Newell Harding and Co. in Boston.
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