Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

by Silvio A. Bedini

[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.