Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts, and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famous for the grasshopper weathervane atop of Faneuil Hall, well known as a symbol of Boston.
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4 December 1683 near Sturgeon Creek, in what is now Eliot, York County, Maine
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Died |
1774 (aged 90) Boston, Massachusetts
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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