• Born: 13 Aug 1787, Hanover MA
• Died: 2 Mar 1883, Lynn MA

  General notes:

Clock and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: John Bailey, about 1800, in Hanover MA.

• He worked after 1809-1811 as a clockmaker in Portland ME

• He worked circa 1812-1823 as a clockmaker in Hanover MA

• Example: Watch paper, circa 1820, in American Antiquarian Society.

• He worked after 1824 as a clock and watchmaker in New Bedford MA also producing mathematical and scientific equipment. He developed a lucrative trade calibrating chronometers for the local ship merchants, but later lost his business when his stanch abolitionist views became widely known.

• Example: Watch paper, circa 1830, in American Antiquarian Society.