Edward or Edmond Pattison was one the earliest tinsmiths of record in America.  He set up his shop in 1740 in Berlin, Connecticut.   There is not much known about the other early tinsmiths.  There was an Anton Schmidt (1725-1793) who lived in Bethlehem Pennsylvania and practiced the tinsmith trade.  In 1752 a tinsmith shop was established in the Moravian village smithy in Bethlehem.  Originally built in 1750, the shop housed a blacksmith , locksmith, nail maker, gunsmith and a gun stock maker.  This tinsmith shop was added in the attic over the locksmith shop.  All these trades in one building foreshadows the modern big box stores.  The blacksmith shop has been recreated.  It was rebuilt in 2004 in the Colonial Industrial Quarter of Historic Bethlehem.