Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 266
es, Exeter, and Westminster Abbey arethe homes of some of the most wonderful clocksin the world. Some of the most beautiful of these were madeby Chippendale and Sheraton, the former manu-facturing specimens that stood nine feet high andmeasured twenty-five inches across. On the doorwas placed a… … OLD-TIME CLOCKS early in the eighteenth century. Among theeariiest clock-makers was one Benjamin Bagnall,who learned his trade in England and settled inBoston in 1712. A record of a meeting of theselectmen of the town on August 13, 1717, reads:that Mr. Joseph Wadsworth, William Welstead,Esq., and…
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