No record of apprenticeship or freedom. First mark entered as a largeworker, 8 January 1746. Address: New Rents, St. Martin's Le Grand. Moved to Dean's Court, 8 August 1749. Second mark, in partnership with Robert Peaston, 12 July 1756. Address: St. Martin's Le Grand. Heal records him as a working goldsmith, St. Martin's Le Grand, 1745-60; and Jewin Street, 1778; partnership with Robert, 1756-63. A William Peaston, son of George Peaston of Cranstoun Midlothian husbandman, apprenticed to Nathaniel Appleton 7 October 1761 and turned over to William Shaw and William Sheen is possibly connected with the above.
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