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The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)

Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 444

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ears to have been merely a bellringer.The trades of Giles Dyer and Robert Williams arenot given in the records that we have examined todetermine this point. Thomas Matson was a gun-smith, William Sumner a blacksmith, and SamuelClough a joiner. From this history of the town clocks of Boston —that… … Fig. 108A DUTCH HANGING CLOCK CLOCKS 249 may infer that there were no clockmakers in Bostonmuch before the year 1709 whose reputation forskill in the management and repair of clocks wassuperior to that of other craftsmen. This conclusion is somewhat at variance withsuch facts and considerations as…

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