MARK OF JOHN LEACOCK, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1780

Born in 1729, John Leacock was advertising as a silversmith by 1751. In November 1753 he relocated his shop to Front Street at "The Golden Cup," and in 1765 signed the Non-Importation Agreement against the stamp tax. Leacock was a freemason, as well as a member of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, and the revolutionary Society of the Sons of St. Tammany, for whom he wrote a play called The Fall of British Tyranny or, American Liberty Triumphant. He was elected to the office of city coroner in 1780, and later recorded as an innkeeper. He died in 1802.