City State Clock? Building Date
Joseph Phillips Clocks New York NY N __ 1717William James Clocks Newport RI N -- 1717Benjamin Bagnall Clocks Boston MA N Brick Meeting House 1718William Claggett Clocks Newport RI N (Dial exists) Trinity Church 17??Ebenezer Parmelee Clocks Guilford CT Y (Mus.) First Church 1726 Milford CT N Meeting House 1740Christopher Witt Clocks Ephrata PA Y (Mus.) Ephrata Cloister 1735 (Attributed to Witt)Macock Ward Clocks Wallingford CT N Third Meeting House 1738Augustine Neisser Clocks Bethlehem PA Y Bell House 1746John Whitear Clocks Stratford CT N Christ Church 1748Aaron Miller Clocks Elizabethtown NJ N First Presbyterian Church1759Thomas Stretch Clocks Philadelphia PA N State House 1759Edward Duffield Clocks Philadelphia PA N Shop 1760Johann Ludwig Eberhardt Clocks Salem NC Y Orange County Courthouse1766Valentine Urletig Clocks Reading PA N Berks County Courthouse 1767Obadiah Frary Clocks Deerfield MA Y (Mus.) Meeting House 1768Gawen Brown Clocks Boston MA Y Old South Church 1770 (Clock is likely of English make, therefore attributed.)Samuel Luscomb Clocks Salem MA N (2 clocks) Meeting House 1773John Eberman, Jr. Clocks Lancaster PA Y (Mus.) Court House 1785 Nazareth PA Y (Mus.) Manor House 1799 Harmony PA Y (Mus.) Church 1801Nathaniel Hamlen Clocks Augusta ME N House gable 178?Benjamin Dudley Clocks Newport RI Y (Mus.) Colony House 1786Thomas Harland Clocks New London CT N First Congregational Church 1790 Norwich CT N ND 1797Daniel Burnap Clocks South Hadley MA N Meeting House 1802 Suffield CT Y (Mus.) Meeting House 1791 (Clock is attributed to Burnap, but there is serious question as to whether Burnap made the clock.)Frederick Heisely Clocks Frederick MD Y Evangelical Lutheran Church 1791 Columbia PA N Town Hall 1829 Chambersburg PA Y Market House 1829Luther Smith Clocks Keene NH N Fourth Meeting House 1794Johann Jacob Loesch Clocks Salem NC N Community House 1797Asa Baldwin Clocks East Haven CT N Old Stone Church 1798Simeon Jocelin Clocks Madison CT Y Church 1799 Branford CT Y Museum 1804Abel Stowell Clocks Worcester MA N Old South Meeting House 1800 Hubbardston MA Y (United, now Federated) Church 1807James Huston Clocks Trenton NJ N First Presbyterian Church 1800Simon Willard Clocks Newburyport MA N North Church 1785 Portland ME Y North Church Meeting House 1802 Roxbury MA N First Church (Repl. by Howard) 1806 Boston MA N Old Boyleston Market -- (May now be in Calvary Church, Arlington, MA.) Boston MA N Park Street Church -- Dedham MA N First Church Meeting House 1820 New York NY N St. George's Church 1820 Univ. Of Va. VA N Rotunda (Burned) 1826 Boston MA Y Old State House 1831 Cambridge MA Y First Parish Unitarian Church 1832 Boston MA Y Commercial Wharf Bldg. 1833 Falmouth MA ? First Congregational Church 1840 (Signed B. F. Wllard)George Holbrook Clocks Leicester MA N Meeting House 1803 Chester NH N Congregational Church 1804 East Windsor CT Y Scantic Meeting House 1810Gardner Parker Clocks Westborough MA Y (Mus.)Meeting House 1806 Shrewsbury MA N Meeting House -- West Cambridge MA N First Parish Church 1808 (Now Arlington)James Ridgeway Clocks Groton MA Y First Parish Meeting House 1809Samuel Terry Clocks East Windsor CT N Church 1811 Windsor CT N First Church 1811 Norfolk CT N -- 1813 -- MA N -- 1833 Peekskill NY N -- 1829 Litchfield CT N -- 1830 Bristol CT Y -- 1832 Goshen CT Y -- 1832 Sag Harbor, L.I.NY N 1834 Waterbury CT N Baptist Church 1845 Surviving clocks, original installation locale unknown: Smithsonian Museum Ford Museum Verdin MuseumIsaiah Lukens Clocks Hatboro PA Y Loller Academy 1812 Philadelphia PA Y Head House Market 1819 Philadelphia PA Y Second National Bank 1820 Camden SC Y Town Clock 1824 Norfolk VA Y Church 1827 Philadelphia PA Y Independence Hall 1828 West Chester PA Y Town Clock 1837 York PA Y Court House -- (Two more clocks by Lukens may be in Flemingsburg and Mayfield, Kentucky. The local legend has it that a Samuel Feemster (Feamster) travelled to Europe (when he was 50) to "learn clockmaking." He is then alleged to have returned to Flemingsburg where he made the two clocks in question.)John Hughes Clocks York PA N (Coll.?)County Courthouse 1815Thomas Woolson, Jr. Clocks Amherst NH Y Meeting House 1815 Claremont NH N Town Hall 1827 Concord NH N - ND Lebanon NH N - ND Northwood NH Y Northwood Baptist Church ND Bethel NH N - ND May have made other clocks, but they are not recorded. Luther Elliot of Amherst made the Amherst clock to Woolson's design.Stephen Hasham Clocks Windsor VT Y** Old South Church 1817 Norwich VT Y Congregational Church 1817 Alstead NH Y** Alstead Congregational Church 1822 Pittsfield MA Y**** First Congregational Church 1822 Charlestown NH N* South Parish Church 1824? Troy NY Y***** First Baptist Church 1824 Charlestown NH Y*** South Parish Church 1843 Cornish Flat NH Y Baptist Church 1844? Haverhill NH Y*** Congregational Church 1844 Springfield VT Y*** Methodist Church 1844 * Burned in 1843. ** Now in a private collection *** Electrified **** Now in the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield. ***** The clock has been removed from the steeple, restored to running condition, and is ticking and striking in Winthrop, New York.Jehiel Clark, Sr. Clocks Cazenovia NY N Methodist Church 1820Elisha Hotchkiss, Jr. Clocks Burlington CT Y Burlington Congregational Church1820Aaron Willard, Jr. Clocks Kennebunkport ME Y South Congregational Church 1824 Hagerstown MD Y Town Hall 1836 Grafton MA Y Congregational Church 1839 (Now in the Willard House Collection) Grafton MA Y 1840Barzillai Davison Clocks Milford CT N First Church Congregational 1825Asa Washburn Clocks Louisville KY N (Burned) Presbyterian Church 1825Harmony Society Clocks Harmony PA Y On display. 1811 (See Eberman, 1811 installation.) Harmony PA Y St. John's Lutheran Church 1827Joel Curtis Clocks Cairo NY N Presbyterian Church 1828David Brown Clocks Pawtucket RI N Congregational Church 1829 New Bedford MA N North Congregational Church 1836 Taunton MA N Trinitarian Church 1836John Whitehead Clocks Bridgeton NJ N Cumberland Nail & Iron Co. 1830George Heisely Clocks Columbia PA N Town Hall 1830 (See Frederick Heisley above.) Chambersburg PA N Market HouseãTown Hall 1831Samuel & Benjamin Demilt Clocks New York NY N City Hall 1831George Handel Holbrook Clocks Holliston MA Y* Church 1832 West Townsend MA Y First Baptist Church 1834 Amherst MA N Replaced by Seth Thomas 1888 1834 Eastport ME Y Congregational Church 1836 East Machias ME Y Congregational Church 1836 Keene NH N Replaced by Stevens 1867 1839 Chelsea VT Y Federated Church 1840 Medway (Millis) MA Y Village Church 1850 A clock in a private collection, initial installation and date unknown. There is an unsubstantiated rumor that a Holbrook was installed in Rahway, New Jersey. * Only the frame and the fan-fly remain in the church.Eli Terry Clocks New Haven CT N Centre Church 1825 (May be the clock now in Plymouth, CT.) Terryville CT N Congregational Church 1838Benjamin Morrill Clocks Dover NH Y* First Parish Church 1835 Henniker NH Y** Congregational Church 1835 Orford NH Y*** West Street Church 1850 Sugar Hill NH Y**** Congregational Church 18?? May have made other clocks, but they are not recorded. * The clock is now a jumble of bits and pieces in the attic of the church. ** The clock is now in the American Clock & Watch Museum, Bristol, CT. *** The clock was installed in the early 1850's. The actual date is not known. It may have been moved to this location from another building. ****The clock was removed from the church sometime in the early 1900's. It is
now running in the Sugar Hill Historical Society Museum---time only, no
strike.Jacob Custer Clocks Philadelphia PA Norristown PA -- Court House 1822 Norristown PA -- Town Clock Uniontown PA Danville PA Phoenixville PA Coatesville PA Waynesboro PA -- Town Clock 1861 Schuylkill FallsNY Burlington NJ Y Glassboro NJ -- AL -- SC -- OH The NAWCC Museum has a Custer clock on display--source unknown.Chase & Quimby Clocks Belfast ME Y First Church 1836George W. Russell Clocks New Holland PA Y School (Rebuilt by Stevens q.v.)1830-40 [This date does not match the date and position in Part 3 of the index page. / Ed.]Josiah Green Clocks Salisbury NH Y Baptist Church 1837 Salisbury NH Y Salisbury Heights 1839 Baptist ChurchEphraim Niles Byram & Sherry & Byram Clocks Sag Harbor, L.I. NY N Methodist Church 1838* Sag Harbor, L.I. NY Y (Elec'd.)Presbyterian Church 1845 Elmhurst, L.I. NY N St. James' Episcopal Church 1850** Lagrange GA N (remains)Lagrange Female Institute1851 Hempstead NY Y St. George's Church 1852 New York NY N City Hall 1853*** Louisville KY N Walnut Street Baptist Church 1855**** Rochester NY N Plymouth Church 1856***** West Point NY ?? West Point Military Academy 1858 McConnellsburg PA Y (remains)-- -- Belvidere NJ Y Warren County Court House º Lexington VA N Virginia Military Institute 1852 St. George UT Y St. George Tabernacle 1872 º There is the possibility that the Belvidere clock came from Lexington, Virginia.
Civil War history records that Major General David Hunter (who was born in
Princeton, New Jersey) left Virginia Military Institute a "gutted ruin" after his
raid in 1864, and the history of the Belvidere clock is rather unclear. * The steeple and the clock were demolished in the 1938 hurricane. ** Burned, 1975 *** Burned, 1858. **** The church and the clock were torn down in 1917. ***** Demolished 1953, because of street reconstruction.Andrew Meneely Clocks New Paltz NY Y Church 1839 Eaton NY Y Town Hall 1848 Salem NY Y -- 1841 Trumansburg NY Y -- 1849 There were other installations for which data is not available.
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