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Samuel Casey

Samuel Casey (1724-1773) was born in Newport, the descendant of Thomas Casey, an Irishman who allegedly fled his country in the 1640s to escape English persecution. Little is known of Casey’s early life or his training for the craft of silversmithing other than an apprenticeship to Jacob Hurd in Boston. In 1745, he was admitted

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