William Kirby (pewtersmith)William Kirby (pewtersmith)

William Kirby (c. 1738 – after 1810) was an American pewtersmith active in New York City. Kirby's father was Peter Kirby, also a pewtersmith. He married Catherine Roosevelt on February 6, 1760, in New York City, where he worked from circa 1755–1790 as a pewtersmith.

• American Pewter: Garvan and Other Collections at Yale, Graham Hood, Yale University Art Gallery, 1965, 8, 37, 40, no. 146, ill.
• Pewter in America: Its Makers and Their Marks, Volume 3, Ledlie Irwin Laughlin, Barre Publishers, 1969, page 105.
• American Pewter, John Barrett Kerfoot, Houghton Mifflin, 1924, page 58.
• American Silversmiths entry

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