Description:
Silver teaspoon (unmarked) with a pointed-end handle and pointed oval bowl with a long tapered drop on the back, which is engraved with the initials "NL" in block letters on tip of handle and with the initials "SLP" in script for Sarah Lovell Plimpton (1832-1886) on the back. This spoon was originally owned by by Nathanial Lovell (1748-1824) of 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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