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 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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