Dummer, Jeremiah (14 September 1645–25 May 1718), silversmith and engraver, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Dummer, a farmer, miller, and large landowner, and Frances Burr. Nothing is known of Jeremiah Dummer’s early schooling. In 1659, at age fourteen, Dummer was apprenticed for a period of eight years to the colony’s noted silversmith and mint master, ...
