Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

by Silvio A. Bedini

[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.