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S. Harris, who engraved the pictorial plates of Henry Andrews and the anonymous Williams, was a New England engraver, who was in Boston about 1798.
Charles P. Harrison, who signed the plain armorial book-plates of William Betts and David Paul Brown, was a son of William Harrison, an English engraver, who came to New York in 1794, and was for a time an instructor of Peter Maverick the second.
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Samuel Hill was a copper-plate engraver in Boston, about 1790, and his work consisted mostly of portraits and book work.
The following are examples of his work:—
| Willm. P. & L. Blake’s Circulating Library at the Boston Book Store | Ornamented label. |
| Charles Pierpont | Ribbon and Wreath. |
| William Winthrop | Ribbon and Wreath. |
Also the plate of Saml. Hill, which is of a literary flavor, is probably the engraver’s own plate.
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S. S. Jocelyn, of New Haven, who made a very handsome plate for the Brothers in Unity of Yale College, became an engraver of vignettes for bank-notes.