Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

by Silvio A. Bedini

[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.