Description:
One of two silver teaspoons (unmarked) with a pointed-end handle and pointed oval bowl with a long tapered drop on the back, which is engraved engraved with the initials "N.L" in block letters on the front of the handle. This spoon was owned by Nathaniel Lovell (1747-1824) of East Medway (now Millis), Massachusetts, who married Mary Barber Knowlton (1745-1832), the widow of Ebenezer Knowlton (1727-1777), a trader in Medway, in 1779. In a note in the file from the donor: "..came down to my mother Sybil Lovell Percival Bramman from her mother Josephine Stevens via Ellen C. Stone whose mother was Caroline Lovell's daughter Katy Daniels who married ___ Lovell brother to my gr. grandfather Ashel Lovell whose mother was Sibbel Plimpton who descended from John Plimpton of Deerfield. / Silver spoons Nathaniel Lovell Medfield or Millis. Came from same Ellen Stone."
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