Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers :: Bibliography of Published Sources

Bibliography of Published Sources

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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.

[126] Charles W. Brewster, Rambles about Portsmouth (Portsmouth, N. H.: L. W. Brewster, 1869), ser. 2, pp. 27, 90, 93, 136, 233, 263, 277, 316, 322, 367.

[127] Information from Prof. Alfred F. Whiting, Dartmouth College Museum.

[128] Rev. James Hill Fitts, History of Newfields, New Hampshire, 1638-1911, (Concord: Rumford Press, 1912).

[129] Price, op. cit. (footnote 1), p. 64.

[130] The full title is The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, Late Commissioner on behalf of the United States During Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799 and Part of the Year 1800 For Determining the Boundary Between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America. It was published by Budd and Barton for Thomas Dobson at "the Stone House, No. 41 South Second Street" in Philadelphia in 1803.

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