Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Samuel Hill

Cloth Seal, Clothier's Seal, Halifax, Samuel Hill, Image & Found by J.A. den Das.
Found in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20mm, 9.3g.

Blank // arms of a chevron and three fleur de lis, a canton, SAM.HILL ...AN.HALIFAX around

A two disc seal the arms of the Hill family.

Samuel Hill, 1677-1759, was a clothier from Soyland near Halifax.

From Mike Patrick, "Richard Hill, [d.1780] of Kebroyd, son of Samuel Hill, in 1746, went into partnership with his father at Kebroyd Mills but after a disagreement left to set up in business on his own. Sam Hill's business was not carried on after his death in 1760. His estate was wound up by his trustees, John Nuttall, Robert Nuttall, both of Bury, George Stansfield of Sowerby, Merchant, John Whitacre of York, Merchant and George Ramsden of Clifton, Gentleman."