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Ibid., vol. 3, p. 130.

Boston Gazette, June 18, 1745.

Ibid., November 12, 1745.

CLARENCE S. BRIGHAM, Paul Revere's Engravings (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1954), p. 118; BERNARD W. WIENBERGER, Introduction to the History of Dentistry (St. Louis, Mosby Co., 1948), 2 vols., vol. 2, pp. 119-134; ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, The Greenwood Family, 1934, pp. 68-78.

Boston Gazette, November 6-13 and November 20-27, 1738, March 26-April 2 and April 2-9, 1739.

BROOKS PALMER, The Book of American Clocks (New York: Macmillan Co., 1950), pp. 141-142.

Massachusetts Magazine (1789), vol. 1, pp. 36, 37; Boston Gazette, January 12, 1789; I. BERNARD COHEN, Some Early Tools of American Science, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950), pp. 6465, 157; HARROLD E. GILLINGHAM, "The First Orreries In America," Journal of the Franklin Institute (1940), vol. 229, pp. 92-97.

WILL GARDNER, The Clock that Talks and What It Tells (Nantucket Whaling Museum, 1954), pp. 34-40, 97, 106.

PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 190.

JOSEPH B. FELT, Annals of Salem (Salem, Mass.: Ives, 1827), vol. 2, p. 173.

HOWARD M. CHAPIN, "Davis Quadrants," Antiques (November 1927), vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 397-399; also RUFUS KING, Pedigree of King of Lynn (Salem, Mass., 1891).

CHAPIN, op. cit. (footnote 39), pp. 398-399.

GLADYS R. LANE, "Rhode Island's Earliest Engraver," Antiques (March 1925), pp. 133-137.

CHAPIN, op. cit. (footnote 39), p. 399.

HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 70-72.

The Connecticut Journal, June 7, 1781.

Ibid., May 22, 1799.

The Connecticut Courant, December 15, 1772, and October 22, 1787; HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 66-70.

HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), p. 122.

Ibid., pp. 79-83.

PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 159.

PENROSE R. HOOPES, Early Clockmaking in Connecticut (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934), pp. 8-9.

WILLIAM MCCABE, "Benjamin Platt of New Fairfield, Connecticut," Timepieces Quarterly (November 1948), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 26-28.

Ibid.

New York Packet, May 14, 1778.

GOTTESMAN, op. cit. (footnote 22), p. 270.

New York Packet, February 3, 1785, and February 27, 1786, and New York Daily Advertiser, February 8, 1787.

The New York Gazette Revived in The Weekly Post-Boy, January 4, 1748.

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