Jewelry manufacturing in Attleboro began about 1780 and it continued to thrive. Around 1964 there were about 163 shops employing about 130, 000 people - nearly half the population of the town - making watches, chains, eye-glass frames, rings, buttons, rings and more.
But what has this have to do with the Vincent lines? Work, and lots of it. I don't know if this type of work is what attracted this line but it did mean that several remained given the sheer number of them working as jewelers... children, wives, children of children....
But what has this have to do with the Vincent lines? Work, and lots of it. I don't know if this type of work is what attracted this line but it did mean that several remained given the sheer number of them working as jewelers... children, wives, children of children....
Joshua Stevens married
a Lydia Vincent, the daughter of George Vincent & Mary Higgins. She died in 1886 but it’s unclear if it was in
Nova Scotia or Massachusetts; Joshua died in 1892 in North Attleboro. Also, not all of their children headed to Massachusetts - of the 10, 6 of them can found in Attleboro at one time or another - many of them working as jewelers.
The censuses indicate that a few landed in
the States in the mid 1880s but there are so many gaps I don't even know where to begin. There is no 1890 or 1900 census for them and only a couple of 1910s. Quite a few of this line are dead ends.
I do believe that many,
if not all, of the Attleboro Stevens clan will be found at the Mount Hope Cemetery
in North Attleboro but to date, I haven’t been able to find any records to confirm
this.
Then I stumbled across an article in the Jewelers' Circular, 18 May 1898 - it could explain the missing records and family members.......
But really, I don't know where the missing people are - did some return to Nova Scotia? Travel to other parts of the States? It's a mystery.
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