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Born c1750.
Died 1817.
London Deaths & Burials Index for St George Martyr dated 5th February 1817. Aged 67 years; last address Borough, Southwark.
"The Times" dated 3rd February 1817:
"On the 29th ult. Samuel Moulton of the Borough, Southwark aged 67 years".
See also Forum Contributors Notes topic for Silversmiths Wills etc.

Father was John Moulton of Chelsea, Middlesex, husbandman.

11 January 1764
Apprenticed to Edward COOKE and turned over the same day to Samuel COOKE, musician
However there is a superscription in the apprentice record interposed in a marginal note to the effect that Samuel Cooke's widow, Elizabeth, became Samuel Moulton's 'master'. ( Goldsmiths Apprentice Book No 8, page 14)

25 February 1766
Turned over to William HARRISON ,goldsmith of Mugwell (Monkwell ) Street, Citizen and Goldsmith

In PR1773 as Bucklemaker at 18, Little Britain
(Little Britain is in the City and runs into Aldergate from Smithfield)

23 September 1773
Samuel Moulton was a witness to the will of Edward Cooke, his original master. A few months after, on 15 July 1774 Edward Cooke of 210, Borough High Street, Southwark signs a codicil to his will.
Heal records Cooke here 1760 -1777 but as Cooke's will was proved 22 September 1774 at PCC he undoubtedly died soon after executing the codicil

22 July 1774
Moulton entered a mark at 210, Borough , Southwark. formerly the address of Edward Cooke.
Presumably he had worked with Edward Cooke in some capacity, although Moulton was registered earlier at an address on the other side of the Thames in Little Britain in 1772 .

29 August 1776
Marriage of Mr Samuel Moulton of the Borough to Miss Wilmot of St Margarets Hill reported in Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser of 31 August 1776. May not be the silversmith but it seems possible.

03 January 1792
Signatory to Bucklemakers Petition to the Prince of Wales

11 February 1817
Will of Samuel MOULTON, , Gentleman of St George the Martyr, Southwark, dated 29th day of July 1816 , was proved at PCC
Witnesses- James Freeman of Borough High Street, and William Wordsworth . The will is fairly long and the register copy is difficult to read.
Most of the first section is preamble, including an instruction to keep his funeral costs to under £30.
He lists various individual bequests , none to names I recognise . They include Benjamin Smith, Mary Smith Spinster, the sister of Benjamin, and Elizabeth Frith the daughter of Thomas Frith

"as to all the rest residue and remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever I give and bequeath the same and every part and parcel thereof unto ….. Mary Frith Spinster Daughter of Thomas Frith ……. and I hereby constitute nominate and appoint Mr John Carter Surgeon of High Street Southwark and Mary Frith, Spinster now living with me Executors of this my will.

Thomas Frith may be the silver bucklemaker. It seems that any wife of Samuel Moulton had pre-deceased him. What his relationship with Mary Frith was is unknown, but she was probably his housekeeper.

Grimwade records an incuse mark of Samuel Moulton registered on 13 July 1781 but does not illustrate it .
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These are two examples, both on buckles stylistically being c1775 - 1785 , the upper on a knee buckle and the lower on a shoe buckle .
Assuming I'm correct in my belief that these are Moulton's mark of the 13 July 1781 ,this dates both buckles neither of which carry a duty mark , to the period mid 1781 - late 1784.