A Set of Twelve American Silver Tablespoons, Paul Revere Jr., Boston, 1796

Firestone and Parson, Boston, MA, 1975

The Magazine Antiques, April 1975, Vol. 107, Firestone and Parson advertisement, p. 630

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, 1998, p. 834

This is the largest known set of tablespoons by Revere.

Ann Whitelock (Geyer) Amory (1774-1817) was the wife of Rufus Greene Amory (1760 - 1833); they married February 13, 1794. Rufus was a Boston lawyer who graduated from Harvard in in 1778. John's parents were Loyalist John Amory (1728-1803) and Katharine Greene (1731-1777). John was the son of Boston merchant Thomas Amory who emigrated from Dublin in 1720, and with his brother Jonathan ran an important shipping business. In 1757 he married Katharine Greene, daughter of silversmith Rufus Greene. The couple lived in a house at the corner of Beacon and Tremont Streets, Boston; their portraits by John Singleton Copley (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Karolik collection) testify to their position in Colonial Boston. The Amory Family Papers, which span from 1697 to 1882, are in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

Members of the Amory family are recorded patrons of Revere and other prominent Boston silversmiths. In addition to this set of twelve tablespoons, Patricia Kane lists a set of ten teaspoons with the AA initials by Revere for Anna Amory in 1796, as well as a circa 1795 teapot with an initial A for John Amory Jr. and his wife Katharine.