Description:
One of two silver tablespoons with a fiddle-end handle, chamfered shoulders, and pointed oval bowl, which is stamped "S.Hoyt Pearl St" in a rectangle over "N.Y." in a rectangle, and the intials "IA" engraved in script on the handle, which is probably Isaac Abercrombie (1759-1847) of the Cheapside section of Deerfield. The earliest listing for Seymour Hoyt (1796-1866) is in the 1817 NYC directory at 30 Oak Street; after frequent moves, Hoyt moved to 383 Pearl Street in the 1829-1831 city directories, Hoyt was in partnership with Ebenzer Whitney was watchmakers from 1832-1841 at various Pearl Street addresses, ending at 266 Pearl St. Hoyt was active as "S. Hoyt & Co." from 1842-1843 and 1854-1859. In 1742, Robert Abercrombie (1712-1786) emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Pelham, Massachusetts; he and his wife, Margaret Stevenson Abercrombie (d.1765), had 10 children; their son, Isaac Abercrombie married Martha McCullough (1768-1837) in 1790, and they moved from Pelham to the Cheapside section of Deerfield (now in Greenfield) about 1830. Their son, Asiel Abercrombie (1807-1874), married Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1817-1906), the daughter of Aaron Fuller (1786-1859) and his first wife, Elizabeth Hill Fuller (d.1818) of Deerfield, in 1845. Asiel and Elizabeth Abercrombie had three children who lived: Robert (b.1846), William Hyslop (1851-1940), and Hattie Fuller (1860-1955); only Robert married - Ellen Margaret Crawford in 1873. Robert and Ellen's son, James Douglas Abercrombie (b.1878) was the father of James Douglas Abercrombie (1913-1978), husband of the donor. The spoons probably descended from William Hyslop Abercrombie to James Douglas Abercrombie.
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