Thread: The culmination of a lot of research

A kind of reunion.

I’ll have a lot more to say about this a little later on, but I’ll clarify a bit now.

You see a Robert Wade razor, a Jane Wade Razor and a Joseph Hives razor there.

Jane Powell married Joseph Hives in 1803.

He died in 1807.

She married Robert Wade in 1808.

He died in 1825.

She was listed in 1826 as making razors.

She died in 1827.

That J. Wade razor is the first I’ve seen and remarkable because it even obliquely references her given name. The other women who produced razors manufactured them using their husband’s marks (Ann Rowland, Elizabeth Rowland, Hannah Cadman).

What’s more, there’s a small chance that this J. Wade razor came to American with her son, Robert Wade, as I got it from someone who got it in Eastern PA, which is where many of his descendents landed.