MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS
Alphabetical List
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MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS AND INSTRUMENT MAKERS
Geographical Listing
TYPES OF INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR MAKERS
(Categories based on specific designations noted in advertisements)
ASTRONOMICAL
Caritat, H. (fl. 1799), New York.
Chandlee, Goldsmith (c.1746-1821), Winchester, Va.; also made surveying instruments and clocks.
Ellicott, Andrew (1754-1820), Baltimore; also made surveying instruments.
Folger, Walter, Jr. (1765-1849), Nantucket, Mass.; also made surveying instruments.
Greenough, Thomas (1710-1785), Boston; also made mathematical, surveying, and nautical instruments.
Hamlin, William (1772-1869), Providence, R.I.; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.
Holcomb, Amasa (1787-1875), Southwick, Mass.; also made surveying instruments.
Rittenhouse, Benjamin (1740-c.1820), Philadelphia; also made surveying instruments.
Rittenhouse, David (1732-1796), Philadelphia and Norristown, Pa.; also made surveying instruments.
Voight, Henry (1738-1814), Philadelphia; also made clocks and watches.
GLASS AND THERMOMETRIC
Blundy, Charles (fl. 1753), Charleston, S.C.; also made watches.
Donegan, Joseph (fl. 1787), New York and Philadelphia; also made philosophical instruments.
Fisher, Martin (fl. 1790), Philadelphia.
Gatty, Joseph (fl. 1794), New York and Philadelphia; also made philosophical instruments.
Ketterer, Alloysius (fl. 1789), Philadelphia.
Wistar, Richard (fl. 1752), Wistarburg, N.J.
HOROLOGICAL
Blundy, Charles (fl. 1753), Charleston, S.C.; also made thermometric instruments.
Burnap, Daniel (1759-1838), East Windsor and Coventry, Conn.; also made surveying instruments.
Chandlee, Benjamin (1723-1791), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying instruments.
Chandlee & Bros. (fl. 1790-1791), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying instruments.
Chandlee, Ellis (1755-1816), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying instruments.
Chandlee, Goldsmith (1751-1821), Winchester, Va.; also made astronomical and surveying instruments.
Chandlee, Isaac (1760-1813), Nottingham, Md.; also made surveying instruments.
Crow, George (c.1726-1772), Philadelphia; also made surveying instruments.
DeVacht, Joseph and Francois (fl. 1792), Gallipolis, Ohio; also made compasses and sundials.
Doolittle, Enos (1751-1806), Hartford, Conn.; also made surveying and nautical instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac (1721-1800), New Haven, Conn.; also made scientific instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac Jr. (1759-1821), New Haven, Conn.; also made surveying instruments.
Gilman, Benjamin C. (1763-1835), Exeter, N.H.; also made mathematical instruments.
Gilmur, Bryan (fl. end of 18th century), Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Harland, Thomas (1735-1807), Norwich, Conn.; also made surveying instruments.
Heisely, Frederick A. (1759-1839), Frederick, Md.; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
Heisely, George (1789-1880), Harrisburg, Pa.; also made mathematical instruments.
Hoff, George (1740-1816), Lancaster, Pa.; also made surveying instruments.
Huntington, Gurdon (1763-1804), Windham, Conn., and Walpole, N.H.; also made surveying and other instruments.
Kennard, John (1782-1861), Newmarket, N.H.; also made surveying instruments.
Mendenhall, Thomas (fl. 1775), Lancaster, Pa.; also made mathematical instruments.
Miller, Aaron (fl. 1748-1771), Elizabethtown, N.J.; also made compasses and surveying instruments.
Platt, Benjamin (1757-1833), Danbury, Litchfield, and New Milford, Conn.; Lanesboro, Mass.; Columbus, Ohio; also made compasses and surveying instruments.
Pope, Joseph (1750-1826), Boston; also made scientific instruments.
Sibley & Marble (Clark Sibley and Simeon Marble) (late 18th century), New Haven, Conn.; also made mathematical instruments.
Sower, Christopher (c. 1724-1740), Germantown and Philadelphia, Pa.; also made mathematical instruments.
Voigt, Henry (1738-1814), Philadelphia; also made astronomical instruments.
White, Peregrine (1747-1834), Woodstock, Conn.; also made surveying instruments.
Witt, Christopher (practitioner) (fl. 1710-1765), Germantown, Pa.; also made mathematical instruments.
MATHEMATICAL (GENERAL)
Condy, Benjamin (fl. 1756-1792, d. 1798), Philadelphia.
Dabney, John, Jr. (fl. 1739), Boston.
Dakin, Jonathan (fl. 1745), Boston; also made balances.
Davenport, William (fl. 1800-1820), Philadelphia; also made surveying instruments.
Doolittle, Isaac (1721-1800), New Haven, Conn.; also made clocks.
Emery, Samuel (late 18th century), Salem, Mass.
Evans, George (fl. 1796, d. 1798), Philadelphia.
Fairman, Gideon (1774-1827), Newburyport, Mass.
Gilman, Benjamin C. (1763-1835), Exeter, N.H.; also made clocks.
Gilmur, Bryan (end of 18th century), Philadelphia; also made clocks.
Greenleaf, Stephen (fl. 1745), Boston.
Greenough, Thomas (1710-1785), Boston; also made surveying, astronomical, and nautical instruments.
Greenwood, Isaac, Jr. (1730-1803), Boston.
Hagger, Benjamin K. (c.1769-1834), Boston and Baltimore; also made surveying instruments.
Halsy, James, II (1695-1767), Boston; also made surveying instruments.
Halsy, John (fl. 1700), Boston.
Ham, James (fl. 1754-1764), New York and Philadelphia.
Ham, James, Jr. (fl. 1780), Philadelphia.
Hamlin, William (1772-1869), Providence, R.I.; also made nautical and astronomical instruments.
Heisely, Frederick (1759-1839), Frederick, Md., and Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh, Pa.; also made clocks and surveying instruments.
Heisely, George (1789-1880), Harrisburg, Pa.; also made clocks.
Hinton, William (fl. 1772), New York.
Hooker & Fairman (before 1810), Newburyport, Mass.
Jacks, James (fl. 1780's), Charleston, S.C.; also made surveying instruments.
Jayne, John (late 18th century), Salem, Mass.
King & Hagger (1759/60 to early 1760's), Newport, R.I.; also made nautical instruments.
King, Benjamin (1707-1786), Newport, R.I.; also made nautical instruments.
King, Daniel (1704-1790), Salem, Mass.
King, Samuel (fl. 1786), Newport, R.I.
Lamb, A. & Son (1780's), New York.
Lamb, Anthony (1703-1784), Virginia, Philadelphia, New York, and Hunter's Key, N.Y.; also made surveying and nautical instruments.
Lamb, John (1735-1800), New York; also made nautical and surveying instruments.
Mendenhall, Thomas (fl. 1775), Lancaster, Pa.; also made clocks.
Newell, Andrew (1749-1798), Boston; also made compasses and surveying instruments.
Platt, Augustus (1809-1886), Columbus, Ohio; also made surveying instruments.
Pryor, Thomas (fl. 1778), Philadelphia.
Revere, Paul (1735-1818), Boston, Mass.
Sibley & Marble (late 18th century), New Haven, Conn.; also made clocks and watches.
Sower, Christopher (c. 1724-1740), Germantown and Philadelphia, Pa.; also made clocks.
Taws, Charles (fl. 1795), Philadelphia.
Thaxter, Samuel (1769-1842), Boston; also made surveying and nautical instruments.
Walpole, Charles (fl. 1746), New York.
Whitney, John (fl. 1801), Philadelphia; also made optical instruments.
Whitney, Thomas (fl. 1798-1821), Philadelphia; also made optical and surveying instruments.
Williams, William (1737/38-1792), Boston; also made nautical instruments.
Witt, Christopher (fl. 1710-1765), Germantown, Pa.; also made clocks.
NAUTICAL
Bulmain & Dennies (fl. 1799), New York.
Clark, Robert (fl. 1785), Charleston, S.C.; also made surveying and optical instruments.
Condy, Benjamin (fl. 1756-92, d. 1798), Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Davenport, William (fl. 1800-1820), Philadelphia; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
Dean, William (?-1797), Philadelphia; also made surveying instruments.
Doolittle, Enos (1751-1806), Hartford, Conn.; also made surveying instruments, directional compasses and clocks.
Emery, Samuel (1787-1882), Salem, Mass.
Fairman, Gideon (1774-1827), Newburyport, Mass.; also made mathematical instruments.
Ford, George, I (late 18th century to 1840), Lancaster, Pa.; also made surveying instruments.
Ford, George, II (fl. 1842), Lancaster, Pa.; also made surveying instruments.
Godfrey, Thomas (1704-1749), Philadelphia.
Gould, John (fl. 1794), Philadelphia; also made surveying and optical instruments.
Greenough, Thomas (1710-1785), Boston; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
Hagger, William G. (c.1744-1830?), Newport, R.I.
Ham, James (fl. 1754-64), New York and Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Ham, James, Jr. (fl. 1780), Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Hamlin, William (1772-1869), Providence, R.I.; also made mathematical instruments.
Jayne, John (late 18th century), Salem, Mass.; also made mathematical instruments.
King & Hagger (1759/60 to early 1760's), Newport, R.I.; also made mathematical instruments.
King, Benjamin (1707-1786), Newport, R.I.; also made mathematical instruments.
King, Benjamin (1740-1804), Salem, Mass.
King, Daniel (1704-1790), Salem, Mass.; also made mathematical instruments.
King, Samuel (fl. 1786), Newport, R.I.; also made mathematical instruments.
Lamb, A., & Son (1780's), New York; also made mathematical instruments.
Lamb, Anthony (1703-1784), Virginia, Philadelphia, New York, and Hunter's Key, N.Y.; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
Lamb, John (1735-1800), New York; also made surveying and mathematical instruments.
Newell, Andrew (1749-1798), Boston; also made mathematical instruments.
Pease, Paul (fl. 1750), probably Rhode Island.
Thaxter, Samuel (1769-1842), Boston; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
Warren, Benjamin (fl. 1740-1790), Plymouth, Mass.; also made surveying instruments.
Williams, William (1737/38-1792), Boston; also made mathematical instruments.
OPTICAL
Benson, John (fl. 1793-1797).
Clark, Robert (fl. 1785), Charleston, S.C.; also made nautical and surveying instruments.
Sommer, Widow Balthaser (fl. 1753), New York.
Whitney, John (fl. 1801), Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Whitney, Thomas (fl. 1798-1821), Philadelphia; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
SURGICAL
Bailey, John (fl. 1778), Fishkill, N.Y.; also made surveying instruments.
Fosbrook, W. (fl. 1786), New York; also made dental instruments.
Youle, James (1740-1786), New York.
Youle, John (fl. 1786), New York.
SURVEYING
Bailey, John (fl. 1778), Fishkill, N.Y.; also made surgical instruments.
Bailey, John, II (1752-1823), Hanover and Lynn, Mass.
Baldwin, Jedidiah (c. 1777-1829), Salem, Boston, and Northampton, Mass., and Hanover, N.H.
Biggs, Thomas (fl. 1792-1795), New York and Philadelphia.
Blakeslee, Ziba (1768-1834), Newtown, Conn.
Bowles, Thomas S. (c. 1765-1821?), Portsmouth, N.H.
Breed, Aaron (late 18th to mid-19th centuries), Boston.
Burnap, Daniel (1759-1838), East Windsor and Coventry, Conn.; also made clocks.
Chandlee, Benjamin, Jr. (1723-1791), Nottingham, Md.; also made clocks.
Chandlee & Bros. (fl. 1790-1791), Nottingham, Md.; also made clocks.
Chandlee, Ellis (1755-1816), Nottingham, Md.; also made clocks.
Chandlee, Ellis & Bros. (fl. 1791-1797), Nottingham, Md.; also made clocks.
Chandlee, Goldsmith (c.1746-1821), Winchester, Va.; also made clocks and sundials.
Chandlee, Isaac (1760-1813), Nottingham, Md.; also made clocks.
Clark, Robert (fl. 1785), Charleston, S.C.; also made nautical and optical instruments.
Clough, Jere (18th century), Boston.
Crow, George (fl. 1754-1772), Wilmington, Del.; also made clocks.
Davenport, William (fl. 1800-1820), Philadelphia; also made mathematical instruments.
Dean, William (?-1797), Philadelphia; also made nautical instruments.
Doolittle, Enos (1751-1806), Hartford, Conn.; also made nautical instruments and clocks.
Doolittle, Isaac, Jr. (1759-1821), New Haven, Conn.; also made clocks.
Dupee, John (after 1761), Boston.
Ellicott, Andrew (1754-1820), Baltimore; also made astronomical instruments.
Ford, George, I (late 18th century to 1840), Lancaster, Pa.; also made nautical instruments.
Ford, George, II (fl. 1842), Lancaster, Pa.; also made nautical instruments.
Gould, John (fl. 1794), Philadelphia; also made nautical and optical instruments.
Greenough, Thomas (1710-1785), Boston, also made nautical and mathematical instruments.
Greenough, William (fl. 1785), Boston.
Halsy, James, II (1695-1767), Boston; also made mathematical instruments.
Halsy, Joseph (fl. 1697-1762), Boston.
Hagger, Benjamin K. (c. 1769-1834), Boston and Baltimore; also made mathematical instruments.
Hanks, Benjamin (1755-1824), Mansfield and Litchfield, Conn.
Hanks, Truman (fl. 1808), Mansfield and Litchfield, Conn.
Harland, Thomas (1735-1807), Norwich, Conn.; also made clocks.
Heisely, Frederick A. (1759-1839), Frederick, Md., and Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh, Pa.; also made clocks and mathematical instruments.
Heisely, George (1789-1880), Harrisburg, Pa.; also made clocks and mathematical instruments.
Holcomb, Amasa (1785-1875), Southwick, Mass.; also made astronomical instruments.
Houghton, Rowland (c. 1678-1744), Boston.
Huntington, Gurdon (1763-1804), Windham, Conn., and Walpole, N.H.; also made clocks and other scientific instruments.
Jacks, James (fl. 1780's), Charleston, S.C.; also made mathematical instruments.
Kennard, John (1782-1861), Newmarket, N.H.; also made clocks.
Lamb, A., & Son (1780's), New York; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.
Lamb, Anthony (1703-1784), New York; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.
Lamb, John (1735-1800), New York; also made mathematical and nautical instruments.
Miller, Aaron (fl. 1748-1771), Elizabeth, N.J.; also made clocks and directional compasses.
Newell, Andrew (1749-1798), Boston; also made mathematical instruments and directional compasses.
Platt, Augustus (1809-1886), Columbus, Ohio; also made mathematical and surveying instruments.
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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FOOTNOTES:
[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.
Index
Abbott, Katherine M., [98]
Adams, Augustus, [99]
Adams, George, [131], [134], [136]
Allen, John Johnson, [148]
almanac, [22], [24], [25]
American Antiquarian Society, [38], [112]
American Philosophical Society, [11], [12], [16], [21], [22], [24]
Amherst College, [26]
Annals of Salem, [43]
Antiques, [43], [45]
apparatus, scientific teaching, [3]
astronomical observatory, [15], [24]
Atwell, George, [10]
backstaff, [58], [96], [139]
Backus, Ebenezer, [120]
Bailey, Calvin, [39]
Bailey, John, [39], [51], [155], [162], [169], [170]
John II, [39], [155], [161], [170]
Lebbeus, [39]
Baily, Joel, [21], [22], [24], [155], [164]
Baldwin, Jabes, [123]
Jedidiah, [123], [124], [154], [155], [160], [162], [170]
Jeduthan, [94]
Ballard, Mehitable, [109], [110]
Samuel, [109]
William, [109], [110]
Baltimore American & Commercial Advertiser, [110]
Banks, Sir Joseph, [140]
Banneker, Benjamin, [22], [23], [24], [25], [155], [160]
Barclay, Thomas, [146]
Bardin, W. & T. M., [131], [141], [142], [143]
barometer, [31], [32], [33]
Bassett, Preston R., [74], [75], [153]
Bedini, Silvio A., [29], [113]
Banneker's ... Almanac and Ephemeris, For ... [179], [24], [25]
Bennet, N., [131]
Benson, John, [28], [155], [169]
Bentley, William, [36], [37]
Bethune, Nathaniel, [87]
Biddle, Owen, [21], [22], [24], [155], [163]
Biggs, Thomas, [59], [155], [162], [163], [170]
Bion, Nicolas, [10]
Blakslee, Ziba, [47], [155], [160], [170]
Blundy, Charles, [29], [155], [165], [166]
Boston Annual Advertiser, [99]
Boston Evening Post, [27]
Boston Gazette, The, [6], [27], [38], [39], [40], [82], [87], [95], [105]
Bostonian Society, [42], [77], [78], [79], [99], [100], [101], [105], [153]
Bouchette, Col., [146], [148]
boundsgoer, [7]
Bowdoin, James, [81], [86]
Bowles, Hannah, [124]
Samuel, [124]
Thomas Salter, [75], [124], [125], [126], [127], [129], [153], [154], [155], [162], [170]
Braddock, Gen., [149]
Bradley, Abiah Emerly, [125]
Brainard, Newton C., [5], [6]
Breed, Aaron, [75], [107], [153], [155], [160], [170]
Brewington, M. V., [85]
Brewster, Charles W., [125]
Bridenbaugh, Carl, [29], [53]
Brigham, Clarence S., [38], [97]
Brighton, Ray, [124]
Brokaw, Isaac, [53], [155], [163]
Brown, Benjamin, [94], [96]
Sam, [102], [104]
Brown University, [26]
Bucks County Historical Society, [90], [153]
Bulmain & Dennies, [51], [155], [162], [168]
Burges, Bartholomew, [40], [155], [160]
Burnap, Daniel, [69], [117], [118], [119], [155], [160], [166], [170]
Cabot, Mrs. H. Ropes, ix
camera obscura, [28]
Campbell, Colin, [146]
Cape Henlopen, [21], [22], [24], [58]
Carey, W., [51]
Caritat, H., [51], [155], [162], [165]
Carter, Henry, [28]
Chandlee, Benjamin, Jr., [54], [155], [161], [166], [170]
Benjamin, Sr., [54]
Edward E., [55]
Ellis, [55], [155], [161], [166], [170]
Ellis, & Bros., [54], [55], [155], [161], [170]
Goldsmith, [54], [55], [56], [57], [155], [165], [166], [170]
Isaac, [55], [59], [155], [161], [170]
John, [55]
Chandlee & Bros. [John and Isaac Chandlee], [161], [166], [170]
Chandlee [Benjamin, Jr.] & Sons, [54]
Chapin, Howard M., [43], [44], [45]
Charleston Evening Gazette, [31]
Cheney, Benjamin, [67]
Chester County Historical Society, [24], [31], [32], [54], [55]
Chronicle [E.A.I.A.], [6]
Churchill, Frank C., [126], [129]
Clark, Robert, [31], [165], [168], [169], [170]
William, [152]
Clark County Historical Society, [60]
Clarke, Martha, [85]
Sarah, [85]
William, [85]
clockmaker, [10], [11], [15], [16], [19], [21], [24], [29], [30], [31], [34], [39], [40], [45], [47], [49], [54], [57], [59], [62], [63], [67], [117], [118], [123], [124], [125], [129], [146]
Clough, Jere, [75], [105], [154], [155], [161], [170]
Joseph, [99], [105]
Cohen, I. Bernard, [40]
Cole, Benjamin, [149], [150]
Collison, Peter, [58]
Columbia Centinel, [98], [99]
compass, [53], [54], [63], [152]
compass card, [75], [76], [82], [83], [90], [92], [102], [104], [106], [107], [113], [115]
Comstock Memorial Collection, [139]
Condorcet, Marquis de, [24]
Condy, Benjamin, [59], [155], [163], [167], [168]
Connecticut Courant, [47]
Connecticut Gazette, [120], [121]
Connecticut Historical Society, [5], [6], [93], [118], [119], [121]
Connecticut Journal, [45]
Conrad, Henry C., [54]
Cosgrove, James, [7]
Cotes, Roger, [149]
Crittenden, A. R., [139]
Crockett, Roberson, [87]
Crow, George, [54], [155], [160], [166], [170]
Curtis, Charles B., [134]
Cushing, A. T., [101]
S. T., [99], [101]
Custis, George Washington Parke, [144]
Dabney, John, Jr., [27], [156], [161], [167]
Dakin, Jonathan, [38], [76], [156], [161], [167]
Dartmouth College, [26], [36], [72], [124]
Museum, [70], [71], [72], [126], [129], [153]
Davenport, Michael, [61]
William, [61], [156], [164], [167], [168], [170]
Davis, William T., [113]
Davis quadrant, [13], [37], [44], [58], [66], [92], [97], [139]
Day, J., [10]
Dean, William, [60], [61], [156], [164], [168], [170]
Denegan, John, [33]
De Negani, [33]
Devacht, Francois, [49], [156], [163], [166]
Joseph, [49], [156], [163], [166]
Dewie, Captain Solomon, [118]
dialing rule, [4], [5]
Diary, or Evening Register, [33]
Dinwiddie, Gov., [150]
Dix, John Ross, [34]
Dixon, Jeremiah, [24]
Donegan, [or Denegan] John, [33], [156], [162], [166]
Donegany, Joseph, [33], [156], [162], [166]
Donnel, Henry, [60]
Jonathan, [60], [61]
Doolittle, Amos, [36]
Enos, [47], [156], [160], [166], [168], [170]
Isaac, [45], [47], [156], [160], [166], [167]
Isaac, Jr., [45], [156], [160], [166], [170]
Dorsan, Sarah Halsy, [80], [81]
Dougherty, John, [60], [61]
Douglass, Andrew Ellicott, [134], [136], [145]
David Bates, [134]
Henry B., [142]
Dow, George Francis, [106]
Draper, Murray & Fairman, [43]
Dring, Jeptha, [31]
Thomas, [31], [32]
Duffield, Edward, [62]
Dunglison, Dr., [62]
Dupee, Isaac, [105]
John, [69], [75], [104], [105], [153], [154], [156], [161], [170]
Duvall, Samuel, [144], [145]
Dyherty, John, [60]
Early American Industries Association, [6], [89]
Eckhardt, George H., [15], [62], [63]
Eichner, Laurits C., [90], [91], [137], [138], [153]
Eldridge, Elizabeth, [80]
Joseph, [80]
Ellicott, Andrew, [18], [19], [20], [22], [24], [62], [131], [132], [133], [134], [135], [137], [139], [142], [144], [145], [147], [156], [160], [165], [170]
Charles, [134]
George, [22], [23]
Jane Judith, [134]
Joseph, [19], [22]
Ellicotts Mills, [19], [21]
Ellis, Mary N., [137]
Orange Warner, [137], [138]
Emery, Samuel, [43], [156], [164], [167], [168]
Endicott, John, [84]
equal altitude instrument, [20]
Evans, David, [146]
George, [31], [62], [156], [163], [167]
Ewer, Sarah, [129]
Fairchild, Adah, [49]
Fairman, Gideon, [42], [156], [157], [162], [167], [168](see also Hooker and Fairman)
Farmer's Museum, [73], [153]
Felt, Joseph B., [43], [94]
Ferguson, James, [22]
Fisher, Joshua, [58]
Martin, [62], [156], [164], [166]
Fitch, Eunice, [98]
John, [62]
Fitts, Rev. James Hill, [129]
Flint, Abel, [10], [72]
Folger, Nathaniel, [45]
Peter, [40], [156], [162]
Walter, Jr., [40], [156], [162], [165]
Folwell, John, [16]
Footes, Nathaniel, [4], [5]
Ford, George, [63], [156], [163], [168], [170]
George, II, [63], [156], [163], [168], [170]
Fosbrook, W., [31], [156], [162], [169]
Franklin, Benjamin, [40], [53], [58]
Franklin Institute, [40], [89], [90], [139], [153]
Frizell, John, [81]
Frye, Joseph, [90], [91], [137], [138], [139]
Joseph, Jr., [91], [137]
Fryeburg, [90], [137], [138]
Gardner, Will, [40]
Gatty, Joseph, [33], [156], [162], [164], [166]
Gerry, Capt., [27]
Gilbert, Joseph, [80], [81]
Mary, [81]
Gillingham, Harold E., [30], [33], [59], [61], [66]
Gilman, Benjamin C., [34], [156], [162], [166], [167]
Gilmur, Bryan, [63], [156], [164], [166], [167]
Gilpin family, [54]
glass and thermometric instruments, [53], [59], [62]
globes, [8], [34], [35], [36], [53], [131], [140], [142], [143]
Goddard & Angell, [22]
Godfrey, Thomas, [58], [59], [88], [156], [164], [168]
Godfrey's quadrant, [28]
Gottesman, Rita S., [33], [51], [66]
Gould, John, [30], [76], [156], [164], [168], [170]
Graham, George, [145]
Grainger, Samuel, [6], [156], [161]
Greene, Joseph, [96]
Peter, [109]
Greenleaf, Stephen, [37], [38], [157], [161], [167]
Greenough, David, [86]
Elizabeth, [85]
Jerusha, [85]
John, [85]
Newman, [85]
Thomas, [69], [75], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89], [90], [92], [93], [137], [138], [153], [157], [160], [165], [167], [169], [170]
Thomas, Dr., [88], [89]
William, [86], [87], [88], [89], [157], [161], [170]
Greenwood, Dr. & Mrs. Arthur, [150]
Isaac, Jr., [38], [157], [161], [167]
Isaac, Sr., [38], [39], [157], [161]
Grew, Theophilus, [8], [157], [164]
Griffith, Nathaniel S., [125]
Griffith & Bowles, [124]
Gross, Huldah, [84]
Thomas, [84]
Gruchy, Thomas James, [87]
gunnery calipers, [40]
Gurley, W. & L. E., [43], [118]
Gurnet lighthouse, [115], [116]
Gutridge, Anna, [84]
Guyol, Philip N., [82]
Hadley, James, [58]
Hadley quadrant, [66], [82]
Hagger, Benjamin King, [109], [110], [111], [154], [157], [160], [161], [167], [170]
John W., [110]
Mary, [43]
William Guyse, [43], [44], [72], [109], [110], [139], [157], [158], [164], [169]
William King, [109]
Hall, Andrew, [98]
Stephen, [86]
Halley, Edmond, [58]
Halsie, Hannah, [84]
James, I, [4], [80], [81], [157], [161]
Nathaniel, [80], [84]
Halsy, Anna, [81]
James, II, [75], [80], [81], [82], [84], [85], [154], [157], [161], [167], [170]
John, [80], [81], [82], [157], [167]
Joseph, [75], [80], [81], [82], [83], [153], [157], [161], [170]
Rebecca, [80]
Sarah, [80]
Ham, George, [125]
Hannah, [125]
Henry, [125]
James, [65], [157], [163], [164], [167], [169]
James, Jr., [66], [164], [167], [169]
Supply, [125]
William, [125]
Hamilton, Alexander, [58], [65]
Hamlin, William, [44], [45], [46], [76], [157], [164], [165], [167], [169]
Hanks, Benjamin, [47], [157], [160], [170]
Truman, [47], [157], [160], [170]
Harland, Thomas, [10], [29], [30], [117], [123], [157], [160], [166], [170]
Harvard University, [8], [26], [35], [40], [41], [95], [99]
Hayes, Fanny, [49]
Rutherford B., [49]
Heckewelder, John, [49]
Heisely, Frederick A., [57], [58], [61], [157], [160], [163], [166], [167], [170]
George, [57], [157], [163], [166], [167], [170]
Helyer, Joseph, [94], [96]
Polly, [98]
Henry Ford Museum, [107]
Hicks, Edward, [31], [32]
Hannah, [31], [32]
Hillman, George, [109]
William, [109]
Hindle, Brooke, [8], [15], [58]
Hinton, William, [66], [76], [157], [163], [167]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, [55]
Hoadley, Silas, [68]
Hobby, Sir Charles, [6]
Hoff, Catherine, [57]
George, [163], [166]
John, [57], [157]
Holbecher, John, [139]
Holcomb, Amasa, [26], [157], [162], [165], [171]
Holland, Captain, [145]
Hood, Joseph, [80]
Hooker, William, [42], [157]
Hooker & Fairman [William Hooker and Gideon Fairman], [42], [157], [162], [167]
Hoopes, Penrose R., [30], [45], [47], [67], [117], [118], [120]
Hopkins, Joseph, [68]
Houghton, Rowland, [27], [38], [157], [161], [171]
Houghton Library, [35]
Hunter, Frederick W., [53]
Huntington, Gurdon, [75], [118], [120], [121], [122], [154], [157], [160], [162], [166], [171]
Hezekiah, [120]
Submit, [120]
Hurd, Nathaniel, [106], [107]
Hutzlar, Dr. Donald A., [60]
hydrometer, [28]
hygrometer, [33]
Independent Journal, or The General Advertiser, [53]
Irving, Washington, iv
Jacks, James, [63], [158], [165], [167], [171]
James, Arthur E., [24]
Jay, Daniel, [30]
Jayne, John, [43], [158], [162], [167], [169]
Jefferson, Thomas, [19], [24], [62]
Jerome, Chauncey, [68]
Jess, Z., [10]
Johnson, John, [139], [146], [148]
Jones, Samuel, [135]
William, [135]
W. & S., [135], [137], [139]
Journal of Andrew Ellicott, [20], [131], [132], [133], [136], [142], [144], [145]
Keese, Samuel, [149]
Kennard, John, [126], [129], [158], [162], [166], [171]
Ketterer, Alloysius, [61], [158], [164], [166]
Kiely, Edmond R., [7]
Kimball, LeRoy E., [8], [36]
Kimmel, Anthony, [144], [145]
King, Benjamin, I, [37], [43], [44], [109], [158], [169]
Benjamin, II, [43] [158] [162] [164], [167], [169]
Daniel, [36], [43], [158], [162], [168], [169]
Mary, [43]
Mehitable, [43]
Rufus, [43]
Samuel, [43], [158], [164], [168], [169]
King & Hagger [Benjamin King and William Guyse Hagger], [43], [44], [158], [164], [167], [169]
Kizer, David J., [60]
Thomas J., [60]
Knowlton, Mary, [43]
Kugler, Charles, [62], [76]
Lamb, A., & Son, [29], [158], [163], [168], [169], [171]
Anthony, [10], [28], [158], [163], [164], [165], [168], [169], [171]
John, [29], [158], [163], [168], [169], [171]
Lane, Gladys R., [45]
Latrobe, Benjamin, [150]
John H. B., [24]
Laudonet, Mary, [54]
Leadbeater, [22]
Leake, Isaac Q., [29]
Lee, Billy, [149]
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, [19]
LePhillips, Philip, [24]
Lewis, John, [7]
Lawrence, [149]
Leybourn, William, [10]
Library Company of Philadelphia, [21]22
Lloyd, Anna, [81]
loadstones, [27], [38]
Loftan, Thomas, [150], [151]
Logan, James, [58]
Love, J., [10], [72]
Lovering & Sons, Joseph, [98]
Ludlow, I., [60]
Lyle, Robert, [54], [56]
Lyon, Mrs. Eliza R., [142]
Madison, James, [19]
Magee, D. F., [63]
magic lantern, [27]
magnets, [63]
maps, [7], [53]
Mariner's Museum, [107], [108], [153]
Maryland Historical Society, [23]
Maryland Journal and Baltimore Daily Advertiser, [21]
Maskelyne, Nevil, [142], [146]
Mason, Charles, [24]
Mason-Dixon Line, [19]
Massachusetts Historical Society, [80], [82], [83], [84], [86], [87], [94], [96], [102], [104], [109], [116], [117]
Massachusetts Magazine, [40]
Matchett's Baltimore Directory, [110]
Mather, Rev. Cotton, [82], [84]
Mathews, Catherine Van C., [21]
Maupertius, de, [146]
Maverick, Jotham, [93], [94]
Samuel, [94]
Mayer's Tables, [22]
McCabe, William, [49]
McHenry, James, [22]
Memoirs of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, [40]
Mendenhall, Thomas, [63], [158], [163], [166], [168]
Mercer Museum, [90], [153]
Merrill, P., Esq., [126], [129]
Miller, Aaron, [53], [158], [162], [166], [171]
Mirick, McAndrew, [87]
Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, [36]
Maria, [40]
Moore, S., [10]
Moor's Indian Charity School, [72]
Morey, John, [113]
Morris, M., [53], [158], [163]
Morton, Charles, [82], [83]
Mount Vernon, [54], [57], [144]
Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, [57]
Nantucket, [40]
National Maritime Museum, [150]
Newell, Andrew, [106], [107], [154], [158], [161], [168], [169], [171]
Charles, [107], [161]
Joseph, [107], [161]
New Hampshire Historical Society, [81], [82], [153]
New York Daily Advertiser, [28], [33], [53]
New York Gazette, [28], [51], [53], [66]
New York Historical Society, [33], [39], [66]
New York Mercury, [66]
New York Packet, [29], [51], [53]
Noble, James, [81]
Norwich Courier, [30]
Norwood, R., [10]
Odell, [146]
Ohio Historical Society, [55], [61]
Ohio State Museum, [16], [51], [52], [55], [59], [60], [61]
Old Sturbridge, [90], [107], [153]
optical instruments, [26], [28]
orrery, [15], [16], [39], [40], [41]
Osborn, John, [96]
Paine, Robert Treat, [82]
Thomas, [82], [83]
Palmer, Brooks, [39], [47], [63], [123]
Parker, N., [153]
Parmele, Ebenezer, [67]
Partridge, Marty, [81]
Paul, Amos, [129]
Temple, [129]
Peabody Museum, [85], [96], [97], [139], [153]
Peale, Charles Wilson, [14]
Pease, Elizabeth Folger, [45]
Paul, [45], [158], [164], [169]
Pell, Edward, [84]
Pemberton, James, [30]
Pennsylvania Evening Herald, [33]
Pennsylvania Magazine, [30]
Pennsylvania Packet, The, [15]
Pennsylvania, University of, [8], [15], [16]
perpetual log, [51]
Phillips, John M., [107]
Jonathan, [99]
Mrs. Mary W., ix
Pierce, Abner, [139]
Pierpont, John, [68]
Pitt, William, [24]
Pitts, James, [86]
planetarium, [36]
planisphere, [51]
Platt, Adah, [49]
Augustus, [49], [52], [158], [163], [168], [171]
Benjamin, [49], [51], [158], [160], [162], [163], [167], [171]
William Augustus, [49]
Plymouth Journal & Massachusetts Advertiser, [112], [113]
Pope, Joseph, [39], [41], [158], [161], [167]
Potter, John, [43], [158], [161], [171]
Potts, Thomas, [12]
W. L., [158], [163]
Power, Alexander, [7]
Price, Derek J. de Solla, ix, [3], [130]
Priestley, Frances D., [140], [142]
Dr. Joseph, [131], [140], [141], [143]
Prime, Alfred Coxe, [29], [31], [63]
Prince, John, [24], [158], [161], [162]
Nathan, [8], [158]
Princeton University, [15]
Pryor, Thomas, [59], [159], [164], [168]
Quincy, Abraham, [96]
Rathborne, Aaron, [9], [10]
Ratsey, Widow, [65]
Revere, Paul, [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [97], [113], [116], [117], [159], [161], [168]
Reynolds, John E., [131], [134]
William, [134]
Reworth, Captain, [87]
Rhode Island Historical Society, [45], [46], [139]
Riley, Stephen T., ix
Ritchie & Co., Bern C., [139]
Rittenhouse, Benjamin, [11], [15], [16], [142], [144], [159], [164], [165], [171]
David, [11], [12], [14], [15], [16], [20], [21], [47], [62], [142], [144], [145], [146], [147], [159], [163], [164], [165], [171]
Rittenhouse & Evans [David Rittenhouse & David Evans], [139], [146], [148], [159], [171]
Roberts, Gideon, [67]
Nathaniel, [85]
Romaine, Lawrence, [88]
Royal Pennsylvania Gazette, [59]
Royal Society of London, [58]
Rutgers University, [26]
Salter, Titus, [124]
sand glasses, [59]
Savage, James, [4], [80], [84]
Schiff, Henry G., [107]
Schoen, H. H., [7]
Seybold, R. F., [7]
Shampeny, Worth, [153]
Shepley Library, [139]
Sheppard, Jack, [29]
Shillcock, Hannah, [94]
Joyce, [94]
Robert, [93]
Shoemaker, Mrs. Francis D., [140]
Shrimpton, Shute, [87]
Sibley, Asa, [120], [121]
Sibley & Marble [Clark Sibley and Simeon Marble], [47], [159], [160], [167], [168]
Sign of the Cross-Knives and Gun, At the, [53], [76]
Sign of "Hadley's Quadrant," At the, [66], [76]
Sign of the Hand & Beam, At the, [38], [76]
Sign of the Mathematical Instruments, At the, [43]
Sign of the Quadrant, At the, [30], [45], [76], [107]
Sign of the Seven Stars, At the, [62], [76]
Sission, Jonathan, [27]
Skillin, John, [77], [78], [79]
Simeon, [39], [41], [78]
Sloane, Sir Hans, [58]
Smart, C. E., ix, [118]
Smith, Cordial, [159], [160]
Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts of Albany, [21]
Solebury, [19]
Sommer, Widow Balthaser, [28], [159], [163], [169]
South Natick Historical Society, [104], [153]
Sower, Christopher, [63], [159], [163], [164], [167], [168]
Stargazers' Stone, [24]
Steele, A.P., [60], [61]
Stevenson, D. Alan, [115]
Stiles & Storrs [Nathan Storrs and Jedidiah Baldwin], [123], [159], [162], [171]
Stiles & Baldwin [Jedidiah Baldwin], [123], [159], [162], [171]
Stimpson, Charles Jr., [99]
Stoddard, Sarah, [86]
Stone, Edmund, [10]
Storrs, Nathan, [123]
Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures [Yale University], [105], [114], [115], [117], [125], [126], [153]
Stretch, Carolyn Wood, [63]
Struik, Dirk J., [26]
Stubbs, Roleigh L. [72], [153]
sundial, [4], [38], [49], [54], [149]
surgical instruments, [31], [47], [51], [53], [54]
Sutton, Henry, [4]
Swan, Joseph, [139]
Symes, Jno. C., [60]
Taws, Charles, [61], [159], [164], [168]
Taylor, E. G. R., [67]
telescope, [11], [21], [40], [45], [54], [60], [62], [64], [136], [137], [148], [149], [150]
Terry, Eli, [117]
Thacher, Charles, [107], [108], [153], [159], [161], [171]
Thaxter, Bathsheba, [97]
Samuel, [69], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [97], [98], [99], [101], [102], [104], [154], [159], [161], [168], [169], [171]
Samuel, Sr., [98]
Thomas, [98]
Thaxter & Son, S., [103]
theodolite, [38], [52], [64], [137], [138]
thermometer, [28], [29], [33]
Thomas, Richard, [22]
Thompson, George Andrews, [148]
Samuel Rowland, [148]
"Thwing Catalogue," [80], [82], [84], [86], [94], [96], [109]
Todd, Eli, [49]
Towle, Jeremiah, [129]
trade cards, [46], [100]
trade signs, [30], [38], [43], [45], [53], [62], [66], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [96], [99], [101], [107]
(see also under Sign)
transit of Venus, [11], [15], [16], [21], [22], [24], [59]
Turner, Charles Jr., [146]
Tyler, Thomas, [105]
Union College, [26]
United States National Archives, [116]
United States National Museum, [15], [57], [62], [90], [91], [134], [139], [140], [144], [149]
Van Ness, Cornelius P., [146]
Vassar College, [40]
Voight, Henry, [62], [64], [148], [159], [164], [165], [167]
Wall, George, Jr., [63], [159], [163], [171]
Wallis, Thomas, [109]
Walpole, Charles, [28], [159], [163], [168]
Walton, Joseph, [125]
Warren, Benjamin, [75], [112], [114], [115], [116], [154], [159], [162], [169], [171]
William L., [6]
Washington, George, iv, [19], [54], [62], [63], [142], [144], [145], [149], [150], [151]
Lawrence Augustine, [54], [57]
weather glass, [33]
Welles, Arnold, [94]
Wienberger, Bernard W., [38]
Wheelock, Rev. Eleazar, [70], [72]
Whipple Museum, [150]
White, John, [85]
Peregrine, [47], [48], [150], [159], [160], [167], [171]
Whiting, Alfred F., [126]
Whitney, John, [30], [159], [164], [168], [169]
Thomas, [30], [152], [159], [168], [169], [171]
William & Mary College, [150]
Williams, John, [93]
Marvin, [120]
Samuel, [26]
Temperance, [120]
William, [77], [78], [93], [94], [95], [96], [97], [98], [159], [161], [168], [169], [171]
Williams College, [26]
Willis, Arthur, [4], [5], [6], [159]
Wilson, James, [8], [34], [35], [159], [165]
Winthrop, John, [26]
Wistar, Casper, [53]
Wistar, Richard, [53], [159], [162], [166]
Witt, Christopher, [62], [159], [163], [167], [168]
Wollaston, Rev., [142]
Wood, John, [63], [159], [164]
Woods, Timothy, [25]
Wright, Captain, [58]
Yale University, [105], [114], [125], [126]
Art Gallery, [106], [107], [153]
Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures, [105], [114], [115], [117], [125], [126], [153]
Yardley, Thomas, Jr., [60]
Youle, James, [53], [76], [159], [163], [169]
John, [53], [159], [163], [169]
Young, Daniel, [113]
Sarah, [113]
zenith sector, [114], [145], [146], [147]