Part 12

Platt, Benjamin (1757-1833), Danbury, Litchfield, and New Milford, Conn.; Lanesboro, Mass.; and Columbus, Ohio; also made directional compasses and clocks.

Potter, John (fl. 1785), Brookfield, Mass.

Rittenhouse, Benjamin (1740-c. 1820), Philadelphia; also made astronomical instruments.

Rittenhouse, David (1732-1796), Philadelphia; also made astronomical instruments.

Rittenhouse & Evans (fl. 1770's), Philadelphia.

Stiles & Baldwin (fl. 1791), Northampton, Mass.

Stiles & Storrs (fl. 1792), Northampton, Mass.

Thacher, Charles, probably Boston.

Thaxter, Samuel (1769-1842), Boston; also made nautical and mathematical instruments.

Wall, George Jr. (fl. 1788), Bucks County, Pa.

Warren, Benjamin (fl. 1740-1790), Plymouth, Mass.; also made nautical instruments.

White, Peregrine (1747-1834), Woodstock, Conn.; also made clocks.

Whitney, Thomas (fl. 1798-1821), Philadelphia; also made mathematical and optical instruments.

Williams, William (1737/38-1792), Boston; also made nautical instruments.

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[1] DEREK J. DE SOLLA PRICE, _Science Since Babylon_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), pp. 62-64.

[2] JAMES SAVAGE, _A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England_ (Boston, 1860), vol. 2, p. 341.

[3] _The Chronicle_ (Early American Industries Association), March 1936, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 8; and personal correspondence with Mr. William L. Warren, Connecticut Historical Society.

[4] R. F. SEYBOLD, "The Evening School in Colonial America," _Bureau of Educational Research, Bulletin 31_ (University of Illinois, 1925), p. 28.

[5] H. H. SCHOEN, "The Making of Maps and Charts," _Ninth Yearbook of the Council for the Social Studies_ (Cambridge, 1938), p. 83; also EDMOND R. KIELY, _Surveying Instruments: Their History and Classroom Use_ (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1947), pp. 239-250.

[6] BROOKE HINDLE, _The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America 1735-1789_ (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1956), pp. 337-338.

[7] LEROY E. KIMBALL, "James Wilson of Vermont, America's First Globe Maker," _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_ (April 1938), p. 31.

[8] HINDLE, op. cit. (footnote 6).

[9] GEORGE H. ECKHARDT, _Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers_ (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1955), p. 190.

[10] CATHERINE VAN C. MATHEWS, _Andrew Ellicott, His Life and Letters_ (New York, 1908).

[11] JOHN H. B. LATROBE, "Memoir of Benjamin Banneker," _Maryland Colonization Journal_ (Baltimore, May 1845); PHILIP LEPHILLIPS, "The Negro, Benjamin Benneker," _Records of the Columbia Historical Society_ (1916), vol. 20.

[12] ARTHUR E. JAMES, _Chester County Clocks and Their Makers_ (West Chester, Pa.: Chester Historical Society, 1947), pp. 29-39; _Transactions of the American Philosophical Society_, ser. I, vol. 1, pp. 85-97.

[13] DIRK J. STRUIK, _Yankee Science in the Making_ (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1948), pp. 47, 70-71.

[14] ROBERT P. MULTHAUF, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate; Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers" (paper 26 in _Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology_, U.S. National Museum Bulletin 228, Washington, 1962), p. 162.

[15] _New York Gazette, Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy_, January 23, 1749.

[16] CARL BRIDENBAUGH, _The Colonial Craftsman_ (New York: New York University Press, 1950), pp. 160-161; ISAAC Q. LEAKE, _Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb_ (Albany: Munsell, 1850); SILVIO A. BEDINI, _Ridgefield in Review_ (New Haven: Walker-Rackliffe, 1958), pp. 71, 84.

[17] ALFRED COXE PRIME, _The Arts and Crafts of Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, 1786-1800_ (The Walpole Society, 1929), p. 230.

[18] PENROSE R. HOOPES, _Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century_ (New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1930), p. 86; _The Norwich Courier_, February 10, 1802.

[19] HARROLD E. GILLINGHAM, "Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers," _The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_ (1927), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 303-305.

[20] Ibid., p. 304.

[21] _Charleston Evening Gazette_, July 24, 1785; PRIME, op. cit. (footnote 17), p. 234.

[22] RITA S. GOTTESMAN, _The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1799_ (New York: New York Historical Society, 1954), pp. 220-221.

[23] _The Pennsylvania Evening Herald_, March 17, 1787.

[24] GOTTESMAN, op cit. (footnote 22), pp. 311-312.

[25] _The Diary, or Evening Register_, November 3, 1794.

[26] GILLINGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 26), p. 306.

[27] EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL, _The Romance of New England Antiques_ (New York: A. A. Wyn, 1950), pp. 257-160; KIMBALL op. cit. (footnote 7).

[28] WILLIAM BENTLEY, _Diary of William Bentley, D. D._ (Salem, Mass.: 1905), vol. 1, p. 182, vol. 2, p. 414.

[29] Ibid., vol. 3, p. 130.

[30] _Boston Gazette_, June 18, 1745.

[31] Ibid., November 12, 1745.

[32] CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM, _Paul Revere's Engravings_ (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1954), p. 118; BERNARD W. WIENBERGER, _Introduction to the History of Dentistry_ (St. Louis, Mosby Co., 1948), 2 vols., vol. 2, pp. 119-134; ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, _The Greenwood Family_, 1934, pp. 68-78.

[33] _Boston Gazette_, November 6-13 and November 20-27, 1738, March 26-April 2 and April 2-9, 1739.

[34] BROOKS PALMER, _The Book of American Clocks_ (New York: Macmillan Co., 1950), pp. 141-142.

[35] _Massachusetts Magazine_ (1789), vol. 1, pp. 36, 37; _Boston Gazette_, January 12, 1789; I. BERNARD COHEN, _Some Early Tools of American Science_, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950), pp. 6465, 157; HARROLD E. GILLINGHAM, "The First Orreries In America," _Journal of the Franklin Institute_ (1940), vol. 229, pp. 92-97.

[36] WILL GARDNER, _The Clock that Talks and What It Tells_ (Nantucket Whaling Museum, 1954), pp. 34-40, 97, 106.

[37] PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 190.

[38] JOSEPH B. FELT, _Annals of Salem_ (Salem, Mass.: Ives, 1827), vol. 2, p. 173.

[39] HOWARD M. CHAPIN, "Davis Quadrants," _Antiques_ (November 1927), vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 397-399; also RUFUS KING, _Pedigree of King of Lynn_ (Salem, Mass., 1891).

[40] CHAPIN, op. cit. (footnote 39), pp. 398-399.

[41] GLADYS R. LANE, "Rhode Island's Earliest Engraver," _Antiques_ (March 1925), pp. 133-137.

[42] CHAPIN, op. cit. (footnote 39), p. 399.

[43] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 70-72.

[44] _The Connecticut Journal_, June 7, 1781.

[45] Ibid., May 22, 1799.

[46] _The Connecticut Courant_, December 15, 1772, and October 22, 1787; HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 66-70.

[47] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), p. 122.

[48] Ibid., pp. 79-83.

[49] PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 159.

[50] PENROSE R. HOOPES, _Early Clockmaking in Connecticut_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934), pp. 8-9.

[51] WILLIAM MCCABE, "Benjamin Platt of New Fairfield, Connecticut," _Timepieces Quarterly_ (November 1948), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 26-28.

[52] Ibid.

[53] _New York Packet_, May 14, 1778.

[54] GOTTESMAN, op. cit. (footnote 22), p. 270.

[55] _New York Packet_, February 3, 1785, and February 27, 1786, and _New York Daily Advertiser_, February 8, 1787.

[56] _The New York Gazette Revived in The Weekly Post-Boy_, January 4, 1748.

[57] BRIDENBAUGH op. cit. (footnote 16), p. 63; FREDERICK W. HUNTER, _Stiegel Glass_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), pp. 157-161.

[58] HENRY C. CONRAD, "Old Delaware Clockmakers," _The Historical and Biographical Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware_ (1897), vol. 3, chap. 20, pp. 4-34.

[59] EDWARD E. CHANDLEE, _Six Quaker Clockmakers_ (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943), pp. 70, 193, 212, 220-223.

[60] "Frederick A. Heisely, Watch and Clockmaker and His Recorded Years, 1759-1839," _Timepieces Quarterly_ (November 1948), vol. 1, no. 1, p. 33.

[61] HINDLE, op. cit. (footnote 6), pp. 22, 68.

[62] GILLINGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 19), pp. 293-294.

[63] Ibid., p. 303; _Royal Pennsylvania Gazette_, April 19, 1778.

[64] GILLINGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 19), p. 302.

[65] Ibid., pp. 305-306.

[66] ECKHARDT, op. cit. (footnote 9), p. 195; GEORGE EVANS, _Illustrated History of the United States Mint_ (Philadelphia: Evans, 1890), p. 114.

[67] CAROLYN WOOD STRETCH, "Early Colonial Clockmakers in Philadelphia," _Pennsylvania Magazine_ (July 1932), vol. 56, pp. 225, 235; ECKHARDT, op. cit. (footnote 9), pp. 18, 24, 198.

[68] D. F. MAGEE, "Grandfather's Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County," Papers read before the Lancaster (Pa.) Historical Society, 1917, pp. 63-77.

[69] PRIME, op. cit. (footnote 17), p. 260.

[70] PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 200.

[71] ALEXANDER HAMILTON, _Official Reports on Publick Credit, A National Bank, Manufactures and a Mint_ (Philadelphia: Wm. McKean, 1821), pp. 208-209.

[72] RITA GOTTESMAN, _The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1726-1776_ (New York: New York Historical Society, 1938), p. 307.

[73] GILLINGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 35), p. 295.

[74] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 50), p. 3; and HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 24), pp. 101-103.

[75] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 19), pp. 106-107.

[76] E. G. R. TAYLOR, _The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 185-292.

[77] JOHN PIERPONT, "Whittling, A Yankee Portrait."

[78] ABEL FLINT, _System of Geometry and Trigonometry together with a Treatise of Surveying_ (Hartford: Olive D. Cooke, 1804), p. 86.

[79] "Report of the Committee on the Rooms," _Proceedings of the Bostonian Society_ (1917), no. 1, p. 16.

[80] SAVAGE, op. cit. (footnote 2), vol. 2, p. 341.

[81] "James Halsy," in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[82] SAVAGE, op. cit. (footnote 2), vol. 2, p. 341.

[83] Ibid.

[84] "Joseph Halsy," in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[85] _Boston Gazette_, September 18-25, October 2-9, and October 16-23, 1738.

[86] Description courtesy of Mr. Philip N. Guyol, director, New Hampshire Historical Society.

[87] SAVAGE, op. cit. (footnote 2), vol. 2, p. 341; "Joseph Halsy," in Thwing Catalogue, and "Cotton Mather" in Record of Marriages, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[88] Land deeds listed in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[89] Massachusetts Historical Society, Inventory L.450, S.P.R. 92.505.

[90] Description courtesy of Mr. M. V. Brewington, Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.

[91] Called the "r r Co.," which has not been further identified but is believed to have been one of the many militia companies that were formed in Boston during this period.

[92] "Thomas Greenough," in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[93] M.S. identified as Folio 495, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[94] _The Chronicle_ (Early American Industries Association), December 1939, vol. 2, no. 12, p. 96.

[95] Ibid.

[96] Description courtesy of Dr. Thomas Greenough, Cooperstown, N. Y.

[97] ROBERT P. MULTHAUF, "Early Instruments in the History of Surveying: Their Use and Invention," _Surveying and Mapping_ (October-December 1958), pp. 401, 403.

[98] "Report of the Committee on the Rooms," _Proceedings of the Bostonian Society_ (1917), no. 1, p. 14.

[99] Ibid., p. 15.

[100] FELT, op. cit. (footnote 38), p. 173.

[101] "William Williams," in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[102] Land record data from Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[103] "Report of the Committee on the Rooms," _Proceedings of the Bostonian Society_ (1917), no. 1, p. 16.

[104] BRIGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 32), p. 121.

[105] _History of Hingham_ [Massachusetts], Hingham [n. d.], vol. 3, p. 236.

[106] KATHERINE M. ABBOTT, _Old Paths and Legends of New England_ (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), pp. 341-342.

[107] _Proceedings of the Bostonian Society_ loc. cit. (footnote 103).

[108] Photograph and records in the collection of the Bostonian Society.

[109] Land records, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[110] GEORGE FRANCIS DOW, _The Arts and Crafts in New England 1704-1775_ (Topsfield, Mass.: The Wayside Press, 1927), p. 256.

[111] JOHN M. PHILLIPS, "An Unrecorded Engraving by Nathaniel Hurd," _Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University_ (June 1936), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 26-27.

[112] Land records on Benjamin King Hagger listed in Thwing Catalogue, Massachusetts Historical Society.

[113] Marriage Document no. 101, Report of the Record Commissioners of Boston, p. 298.

[114] _The Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser_, November 9, 1834.

[115] SILVIO A. BEDINI, "A Compass Card by Paul Revere (?)", _Yale Library Gazette_ (July 1962), no. 2. pp. 36-38; WILLIAM T. DAVIS, _Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth_ (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1883).

[116] D. ALAN STEVENSON, _The World's Lighthouses before 1820_ (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 179.

[117] PAUL REVERE, _Day Books_, MS., Massachusetts Historical Society.

[118] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 50), pp. 7-8.

[119] Information from Mr. C. E. Smart, of W. & L. E. Gurley, Troy, New York.

[120] PENROSE R. HOOPES, _Shop Records of Daniel Burnap, Clockmaker_, (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1958), pp. 63-66.

[121] HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 92-93.

[122] _Memoirs of the Huntington Family Association_ (Hartford, Conn., 1915), Index no. 1.3.4.4.2.4.

[123] PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 143.

[124] Correspondence with Mr. Ray Brighton, Portsmouth, N. H.

[125] CHARLES W. BREWSTER, _Rambles about Portsmouth_ (Portsmouth, N. H.: L. W. Brewster, 1859, 1873), ser. 1, pp. 165, 329.