John Coney

John Coney (January 5, 1655 – August 20, 1722) was a silversmith and goldsmith from Boston, Massachusetts. He specialized in engraving. From the 1690s on, Coney was considered the most important Bostonian silversmith of his day. In 1702, he engraved the paper money for Massachusetts.

John Coney was the apprentice of and later brother-in-law to Jeremiah Dummer, the first American-born silversmith. He married Mary Atwater, sister of Dummer's wife, in 1694. They were widower and widow, Coney had been married twice before. He had twelve children in total, but only five daughters survived beyond infancy. A silver porringer created by John Coney, c. 1710, Birmingham Museum of Art His last apprentice, from 1716 until the time of Coney's death, was Apollos Rivoire, father of Paul Revere, and his indirect influence on Revere was considerable.