Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

by Silvio A. Bedini

[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.