pewterer

• “Though quite why he had it in for Henry Burgum the pewterer was a mystery—oh, Burgum was a dyed-in-the-wool villain, but what precisely had he done to Mr. James Thistlethwaite?”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “When next the kitten opened an eye the pewterer was pouring the melted mass into two molds.”

  The Blue Cat of Castle Town

• “You will find as the touchmark of this pewterer the initials E.S. below a full-rigged ship.”

  The Blue Cat of Castle Town

• “Do you know what the master pewterer in Connecticut said of such metal, which he hated, blue kitten?”

  The Blue Cat of Castle Town

• “By this time the pewterer had seized two bright teapots from the counter.”

  The Blue Cat of Castle Town

• “She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “Chatterton's earliest idea seems to have been how to deceive; and, were it possible to laugh at youthful fraud, there would be something irresistibly ludicrous in the lad bewildering the old pewterer, Burgum.”

  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

• “The handle of a spoon bearing the hallmark of this earliest American pewterer, of whom there is a record, is extant and may be seen at the museum at Jamestown.”

  Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

• “Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer, of St. Andrews, Norwich, had recanted; but, tortured for what she had done by the worm which dieth not, she shortly after voluntarily entered her parish church during the time of the popish service, and standing up, audibly proclaimed that she revoked her former recantation, and cautioned the people to avoid her unworthy example.”

  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

• “Mr. Newman, pewterer, was burnt at Saffron Waldon, in Essex, Aug. 31, for the same cause, and Richard Hook about the same time perished at”

  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

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