Shem Drowne
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
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| 1683/12/04 | Shem Drowne is born near Sturgeon Creek in what is now Eliot, York County, Maine. He was the third son of Leonard Drowne, a shipbuilder who came from Penryn, Cornwall, to what was then part of Kittery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | Born | |||||
| 1740/00/00 | Designed by Boston book and print seller William Price, Christ Church Episcopal's 911 foot tall wooden tower is erected. The spire is topped by a swallow-tail weather vane designed by Shem Drowne. | Craftsman | Old North Church | Boston | |||
| 1742/00/00 | Peter Faneuil commissions Shem Drowne to craft a weathervane for Faneuil Hall. Drowne made a copper grasshopper weathervane gilded with gold leaf with glass eyes. | Craftsman | Faneuil Hall | Boston | |||
| 1746/06/12 | Shem Drowne buys Monhegan Island and its surrounding islands for 10 pounds, 13 shillings. His son will later sell the island for 160 pounds. | Owner | Monhegan Island | Maine | |||
| 1755/11/18 | The Cape Ann Earthquake topples Shem Drowne's Grasshopper Weathervane from the spire at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Shem and his son Thomas will repair it and remount it. | Craftsman | Faneuil Hall | Boston | |||
| 1774/01/13 | Shem Drowne dies at aged 90 in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr Drowne's final resting place is Copp's Hill Burying Ground in the North End of Boston. | Died | Copp's Hill Burial Ground | Boston |
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