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DEREK J. DE SOLLA PRICE, Science Since Babylon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), pp. 62-64.

JAMES SAVAGE, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1860), vol. 2, p. 341.

The Chronicle (Early American Industries Association), March 1936, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 8; and personal correspondence with Mr. William L. Warren, Connecticut Historical Society.

R. F. SEYBOLD, "The Evening School in Colonial America," Bureau of Educational Research, Bulletin 31 (University of Illinois, 1925), p. 28.

H. H. SCHOEN, "The Making of Maps and Charts," Ninth Yearbook of the Council for the Social Studies (Cambridge, 1938), p. 83; also EDMOND R. KIELY, Surveying Instruments: Their History and Classroom Use (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1947), pp. 239-250.

BROOKE HINDLE, The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America 1735-1789 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1956), pp. 337-338.

LEROY E. KIMBALL, "James Wilson of Vermont, America's First Globe Maker," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (April 1938), p. 31.

HINDLE, op. cit. (footnote 6).

GEORGE H. ECKHARDT, Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1955), p. 190.

CATHERINE VAN C. MATHEWS, Andrew Ellicott, His Life and Letters (New York, 1908).

JOHN H. B. LATROBE, "Memoir of Benjamin Banneker," Maryland Colonization Journal (Baltimore, May 1845); PHILIP LEPHILLIPS, "The Negro, Benjamin Benneker," Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1916), vol. 20.

ARTHUR E. JAMES, Chester County Clocks and Their Makers (West Chester, Pa.: Chester Historical Society, 1947), pp. 29-39; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, ser. I, vol. 1, pp. 85-97.

DIRK J. STRUIK, Yankee Science in the Making (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1948), pp. 47, 70-71.

ROBERT P. MULTHAUF, ed., "Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate; Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers" (paper 26 in Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, U.S. National Museum Bulletin 228, Washington, 1962), p. 162.

New York Gazette, Revived in the Weekly Post-Boy, January 23, 1749.

CARL BRIDENBAUGH, The Colonial Craftsman (New York: New York University Press, 1950), pp. 160-161; ISAAC Q. LEAKE, Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb (Albany: Munsell, 1850); SILVIO A. BEDINI, Ridgefield in Review (New Haven: Walker-Rackliffe, 1958), pp. 71, 84.

ALFRED COXE PRIME, The Arts and Crafts of Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, 1786-1800 (The Walpole Society, 1929), p. 230.

PENROSE R. HOOPES, Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1930), p. 86; The Norwich Courier, February 10, 1802.

HARROLD E. GILLINGHAM, "Some Early Philadelphia Instrument Makers," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1927), vol. 51, no. 3, p. 303-305.

Ibid., p. 304.

Charleston Evening Gazette, July 24, 1785; PRIME, op. cit. (footnote 17), p. 234.

RITA S. GOTTESMAN, The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1799 (New York: New York Historical Society, 1954), pp. 220-221.

The Pennsylvania Evening Herald, March 17, 1787.

GOTTESMAN, op cit. (footnote 22), pp. 311-312.

The Diary, or Evening Register, November 3, 1794.

GILLINGHAM, op. cit. (footnote 26), p. 306.

EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL, The Romance of New England Antiques (New York: A. A. Wyn, 1950), pp. 257-160; KIMBALL op. cit. (footnote 7).

WILLIAM BENTLEY, Diary of William Bentley, D. D. (Salem, Mass.: 1905), vol. 1, p. 182, vol. 2, p. 414.

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