I here provide (entirely circumstantial) evidence that the two carvers I
had named the "Narrow- Nose carver" and the "Goggle-Eye carver" in my
study of Lemuel Savery in Markers XV were in fact his two
apprentices and that they were two brothers resident in Plymouth: Samuel
Burbank (1774-1816) and Nehemiah Burbank (1777-1814). My argument relies
on the following:
They were the right age;
They were Savery's nephews;
Their work appears where Savery's does, with the exception of Plymouth
(but the work of apprentices was often shipped out of town);
Most important of all, while they have only two (out of 68) gravestones in
Plymouth, one of these is for a ninety-year old man and his wife (rare for
apprentices to provide an adult's marker), and both apprentices
contributed to the carving. This was the stone for Timothy Burbank (1793),
their grandfather.