A Picturesque Federal Gilt Tabernacle Mirror, with Newburyport Reverse Painting, Salem, MA c.1800, labeled Stillman Lothrop

This mid-sized mirror retains it’s original mirrored glass, backboard, and label of the maker, Stillman Lothrop. Mirror labels are quite rare and this is preserved in its entirety (see images). The Newburyport painting appears to have its original gilt border, however the painting itself is highly restored. This beautiful mirror was done very well and retains its original eglomise glass and mirror glass. Item SW01930 From Stanley Weiss Auctions See Also Christie's Auction

Stillman Lothrop lived at Otis House now owned by Historic New England and used as Headquarters Photo from 1910

Stillmam worked for John Doggett a cabinetmaker, carver, and gilder in Roxbury and Boston, Massachusetts. He worked as a gilder in Salem before establishing a looking-glass manufactory in Boston. Listed in Boston Directory on Court street
He also lived at Otis House. See Winterthur Library Papers
He was the son of Barnabas Lothrop (1758-1838) and Sarah Bozworth/Bosworth (1761-1813). He was born in Bridgewater, MA. Barnabas Lothrop was born on 25 February 1757, the son of Edward Lothrop and Abigail (Howard) Lothrop, of West Bridgewater, MA. He M. 2nd Clara Holbrook
Sarah was d. of Jonathan Bozworth [or Bosworth] and Abiel/Abial Lathrop. Stillmam's Siblings: Clarissa Lothrop, Barnabos Lothrop, Sarah Lothrop, Edward Lothrop, Elizabeth Lothrop, Tisdale Lothrop, Mary Lothrop

 

History of Bulfinch Hall published by Phillips Andover Academy 

1. Antiques, Volume 93 1968
2. Writings on American history KTO Press, 1959
3. Paul Hogarth's Walking Tours of Old Boston: Through North End, Downtown, Beacon Hill, Charleston, Cambridge, and Back Bay 1978 
4. The New-England Galaxy, Volumes 1-2 Old Sturbridge Incorporated, 1959
5. Peabody Essex Museum Collections, Volume 137 Peabody Essex Museum, 2001
6. Antiques, Volumes 75-76  Straight Enterprises, 1959

George Washington Gerrish and Ancestors

A Great Share from Douglas G Adams author of  The descendants of Captain William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell : the descendants of Captain Walter Price and Elizabeth Gerrish and Journal of Benjamin Gerrish, Salem, Massachusetts, 1703-1713 See Sons & Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury

Spelling varies in names
William Gerrish was born 20 August 1617 in Bristol, Somerset, England. His parents were John Gerrish and Anne. He married Joanna Lowell, daughter of Percival Lowle, in 1645 in Newbury, Massachusetts. They had ten children. Elizabeth Gerrish, who married Walter Price (1613/14-1674), was probably William Gerrish's sister. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Maine. Includes bibliographical references and index. The second book: Chiefly a transcription of the journal of Benjamin Gerrish for the years 1703-1713. Benjamin was of Salem, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Gerrish of Newbury.

George Washington Gerrish (19 Oct 1775 - 27 Jan 1850). He was born at Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire married Elizabeth Thompson Furbush on 21 Feb 1799 at Lebanon, Maine. He was Captain of the Military Company of Lebanon. George Washington Gerrish is the son of Capt George Gerrish and Mary James.
 

Sarah Hanson Hartford Gerrish (9 Jul 1804 - 26 Nov 1898) daughter of John Brackett Hartford and Keziah Howard.

Sarah Hanson Hartford Gerrish with he son, James Gerrish of Sacramento, CA and his family. James is the brother of Samuel Howard Gerrish.

Sarah Jane Rogers (20 Sep 1835 - 29 Jan 1922), wife of Samuel Howard Gerrish. She is the daughter of Major Thomas Rogers and Sarah Blackman Clapp. 

Daniel Raynes Goodwin (1811-1890), the son of Samuel Goodwin (1764-1855) and Anna Gerrish (1769-18xx). Professor Goodwin was married (1838) to Mary Randall Merrick (1810-1884), the daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Humpage) Merrick. From 1840: Henry Boynton Smith to Daniel Raynes Goodwin

Photo by Wayne Marshall Chase Images of New England The story of Byfield: a New England parish By John Louis Ewell

William Hobbs Goodwin, son of Joseph Gerrish Goodwin and Frances Hobbs Joseph Gerrish Goodwin, son of Samuel Goodwin and Anna Gerrish Col. Joseph Gerrish, son of Col. Timothy Gerrish and Sarah Eliot Col. Timothy Gerrish, son of Judge John Gerrish and Elizabeth Waldron Judge John Gerrish, son of Capt. William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell See Ancestors of RGM

More Gerrish Graves York County Genealogy

                                 

William Gerrish was born June 24, 1842, son of George Washington Gerrish and Sarah Howard (Hanson) Gerrish and died April 12, 1903. See Gerrish Line Part One 

Benjamin Gerrish Gray aged 85 and his wife Anne Eliza (nee Wiggins) aged 83 on their golden wedding in 1903, standing in front of their house 4 Inverness Gardens, Kensington, London, England. He was a senior Bank Manager, having been a Partner in BCT Gray and Sons from 1856-1858. He was born in Bermuda; she in New Brunswick. They married in St John, New Brunswick on 12 October 1853, and migrated back to England soon afterwards. Both the Gerrish and the Gray families were important First Settler families, the Grays in Boston, MA, the Gerrishes in Salem, MA (and other towns in MA and NH) and later in Nova Scotia. Thus both families can be traced from England to New England and back. Similarly, Thomas Wiggins came from Battersea, England and migrated to New York; 6 generations later Eliza moved back to England.

The sitters are Abigail (Flint) Gerrish wife of Benjamin Gerrish and one of her granddaughters, probably Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Margaret (Cabot) Gerrish. PEM Photo

Joseph Marriner Gerrish Family, circa 1824

                                 

 

Portrait of Benjamin Gerrish (1717-1772)

See Gerrish Line Part 2 The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature history, and state progress (1912) Vol 44

Charles Gerrish a retired farmer of St. Charles, is numbered among the honored pioneers of Winona County, having here made his home since 1855. He has witnessed the entire growth and development of this region, and has ever borne his part in the work of progress and development, so that his name is inseparably connected with the history of this section. A native of New Hampshire, Mr. Gerrish was born in Canterbury, Merrimac County, on the 1st of March, 1822. His father, Joseph Gerrish, was also born in that locality, and was the sixth in direct descent from Capt. William Gerrish, founder of the family in America. The Captain was born in Bristol, England, in 1617, braved the dangers of an ocean voyage in 1639, became a resident of Newbury, Mass., and died in 1687. His son, Col. Moses Gerrish, was the father of Col. Joseph Gerrish, and the grandfather of Capt. Stephen Gerrish, who was the great-grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads this record. The grandfather bore the name of Samuel Gerrish.

• Gerrish family papers
• Record Data from the Family Bible of Samuel Howard Gerrish and Sarah Jane Rogers
• Samuel Howard Gerrish, 1834-1912: Excerpts from Autobiograph and Family History
• The sisters and the cousins and the aunts: ancestral lines of the Foster and Curtis families of Long Island, New York, and New England
• Richard Bartlett, from Maine to Dixieland
• The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: With Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, and of York County, Maine  
• The descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts: the family in England and the first six generations in North America
• Notable kin: an anthology of columns first published in the NEHGS nexus, 1986-1995, Volume 2
• Richard Walderne and some of his descendants
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 53
• Thomas Gardner, Planter and some of his descendants
• The Gerrish Family Saunders History  

Gerrish Line Part 1

Taken from "Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Maine: A History, Volume 4 edited by Louis Clinton Hatch History of Maine Register UNH Archives Gerrish Family Genealogy, 1617-1917 And check out The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 51 1897, Volume 51: Gerrish Family Bible Record by Lucy Hall Greenlaw

William Gerrish was born June 24, 1842, son of George Washington Gerrish and Sarah Howard (Hanson) Gerrish and died April 12, 1903. His line of New England ancestors extends back for seven generations, beginning with Captain William Gerrish, born August 20, 1617, who came from Bristol, England, and settled in Newbury, Mass., in 1639. Captain William Gerrish died in Salem, Mass., August 9, 1687. His first wife was Joanna, daughter of Percival Lowell and widow of John Oliver, their marriage occurring April 17, 1644. Their eldest son was Captain John Gerrish, born in Newbury, Mass., May 15, 1646, who married, August 19, 1667, Elizabeth Waldron, daughter of Major Richard Waldron, of Dover, N.H., and died December 19, 1714.  
Robert Elliot Jr & Sr George Vaughan, Andrew Peppermill Timothy Gerrish deed.

Next in direct line was Colonel Timothy Gerrish, son of Captain John and Elizabeth Waldren, born in Dover, N. H., April 2, 1684. Captain John was quartermaster in 1670, captain in 1672, high constable in 1683, member of the special General Assembly, 1684, Representative from Dover, 1689-90, Royal Councillor of New Hampshire, 1692, Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of Pleas of New Hampshire, April 27, 1697, until his death in 1714. Colonel Timothy Gerrish's sixth son, Andrew Gerish, lived in various places, including Dover, New Hampshire, and there his son, Timothy Gerrish, was born April 7, 1756. He was a gold and silversmith, but for the sixteen years preceding his death at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 30, 1815, was deputy sheriff and jail warden. He married, February 6, 1780, Dorothy Patterson, of Portsmouth. Their sixth child, Dorothy Gerrish, born January 1, 1791, died September 27, 1867, married (first) September 1, 1808, William Senter. Among their seven children were sons: William, Timothy, Gerrish and Andrew. William, the eldest, and Andrew, the youngest, were both expert jewelers and were associated in the business in Portland, Maine, the firm Lowell & Senter, becoming large and prosperous.  Below Gerrish Silver Description: COIN SILVER,NH,B1753,FIDDLE,WINGS

Another son Oliver Gerrish born Jan 4 1796, Portsmouth NH. Married Sarah Little on Jan 6 1825 in Portland ME and died Dec 3 1888, Portland MEApprenticed in 1810 to John Gaines in Portsmouth NH He worked from 1817 to 1819 as a goldsmith and jeweler in Boston MA as a journeyman for various firms. Portland ME, 1819-1888: president of Portland Savings Bank, Secretary and Treasurer of Relief Fire Society, a prominent Mason, and active in a large number of charitable and philanthropic organizations. He worked from 1819 to 1857 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Portland ME taking the stand formerly occupied by Joshua Tolford at 6 Jones Row, Exchange Street. Master to Abner Lowell c 1825 in Portland ME. Master to William Senter abt 1828 in Portland ME.

 

Back to William who married November 14, 1706, Sarah, daughter of the Hon. Robert Elliot and Sarah (Fryer) Elliot, of Newcastle, N. H. Sarah received as her wedding dowry the eastern end of Champernowe Island containing nearly one thousand acres and which for nearly two hundred years has been known as Gerrish's Island and the residence of Gerrish descendants where. the couple settled on Gerrish's Island, at Kittery and he died November 19, 1755. He was a wealthy farmer and merchant of Kittery, Maine, as his father had been of Dover, New Hampshire, and filled many public offices. He was Councillor for Massachusetts and Colonel of the West Yorkshire Regiment. His son John, who was born in Dover, N.H., February 6, 1710, and died in March, 1750, married November 21, 1734, Margery, daughter of Dr. George and Joanna (Pepperrell) Jackson, of Kittery, Me., and a niece of Sir William Pepperrell.
Gerrish chandlery in Kittery Maine Maritime Museum

George Gerrish, son of John and Margery, was born in Dover, N. H., April 9, 1737. He married Mary James, of Portsmouth, N.H., daughter of John and Ann (Lord) James. Her father served in the Continental army as a private in Captain Eliphalet Daniels's company, which in 1775 was stationed at Fort Sullivan. George Gerrish settled in Lebanon, Me., in 1776.

His son, Captain George Gerrish, grandfather of William, was born in Dover, N.H., October 19, 1775. He settled in Lebanon, Me., and married Elizabeth Thompson Furbush (February 21, 1799), a daughter of Richard and Jane (McCrillis) Furbush, of that town. His title of Captain was derived from his rank in the militia of York County, Maine. He died in Chelsea, Mass., January 26, 1850.

George W. Gerrish, son of Captain George and father of Lieutenant William Gerrish, was born in Lebanon, Me., January 20, 1809. In 1836 he settled in Chelsea, and engaged in the real estate business, becoming one of the largest operators in real estate in the State of Massachusetts; and he was for about forty years the largest individual taxpayer in Chelsea. At the time of his death, which took place in Chelsea, April 24, 1876, he had over one hundred and twenty-five buildings in process of construction. His wife, Sarah Howard Hanson, was a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Howard) Hanson, of Dover, N.H. They had eight children; namely, Israel Hanson, Captain George Albert (pic below), Joanna Elizabeth, Hiram Augustus, Joanna Elizabeth (second), William, Sarah Augusta, and Lydia Caroline. Israel, George Albert, and William were soldiers of the Civil War.

William Gerrish was educated in the public schools of Chelsea, and fitted for college at the Chauncy Hall School of Boston. On the breaking out of the great Civil War he enlisted for three years in Company H, formed in Chelsea and belonging to the First Massachusetts Regiment, but was discharged on account of disability. He spent six months endeavoring to recuperate his health, and then entered Norwich University in Vermont, where he spent two years in study. On February 4, 1864, he was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Twentieth United States Colored Infantry, a regiment raised, equipped, and turned over to the United States government by the Union League of New York City, which took part in the capture of Mobile and several other engagements, and which was mustered out in the fall of 1865. While with the regiment Lieutenant Gerrish served as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General for the district of Carrollton, La.

On being mustered out he went to Chicago, but returned East in 1867, and in the following year entered the office of his father. He has since remained a resident of Chelsea. He belongs to the order of the Knights of Malta. For ten years he held the office of Assessor in the city of Chelsea. He is an expert with the rifle, having served as a member of the American team in two international rifle contests. In 1880 he made the highest score at long range ever made. So far as known, the Lieutenant has made ten of the largest scores of any man in the world of which there is authentic record.

Lieutenant Gerrish was married in Chicago, June 11, 1872, by the Rev. Robert Collyer, to Emily Gertrude, daughter of Artemas Spofford and Susan Wheeler (Turner) Patten. His children arc four in number: Susan Louise, born April 12, 1873; William Patten, born September 10, 1874; Charles Victor, born May 15, 1876; and George Howard, born August 15, 1877, of Harvard University, 1901.

Greenleaf-Dole Farm Host Centennial 1919 West Newbury Massachusetts

Sunday, August 17, 1919 Boston Herald (Boston, MA)
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