Mr. Flint the Senior Fellow perform'd the part of Moderator, began with 

 Prayer, and then Pronounc'd a Latin Oration proper to the Occasion: Mr. 

 Wiggleworth Divinity Professor, read the Founders Instructions. Mr. 

 Greenwood took the Oaths and made the Declarations required in them: 

 and pronounc'd a Latin Oration. The Rev. Mr. Appleton Pray'd: and 

 Singing part of the 104 Psalm concluded the Solemnity. After which the 

 Overseers & Corporation repair'd to the Library; till the Publick Dinner in 

 the Hall was ready, where all the Gentlemen Spectators of the Solemnity 

 were hansomely Entertained. 



Greenwood continued to teach privately for a decade. In various 

 issues of The Boston Gazette of 1738 and 1739 he featured an ad- 

 vertisement, the text of which always stated: 



Such as are desirous of learning any Part of Practical or Theoretical 

 Mathematics may be taught by Isaac Greenwood, A.M. &c. in Clark's Square, 

 near the North Meeting House, where Attendance will be given between the 

 Hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon, and 2 and 5 in the Afternoons. 



N.B. Instructions may also be had in any Branch of Natural Philosophy, 

 when there is a sufficient Number to attend.^^ 



John Bailey II (1752-1823) of Hanover and Lynn, Massa- 

 chusetts worked as a clockmaker from about 1770. His father, 

 John Bailey I, and his brothers Calvin and Lebbeus also were 

 clockmakers. Bailey married Mary Hall of Berwick, Maine, 

 and settled in Hanover where he made scientific instruments and 

 clocks. A brass surveying compass in the collection of the New 

 York Historical Society is inscribed "j. bailey hanover 1804." ^^ 



Undoubtedly the best known instrument maker in Massachu- 

 setts was Joseph Pope (1750-1826), of Boston, who was described 

 by contemporaries as the "local mathematician, watch-maker and 

 mechanical genius." In 1787 he completed the construction of a 

 gear-driven orrery displaying the motions of the solar system in 

 a horizontal plane with eccentric and inclined orbits. At each 

 of the twelve corners were mounted cast bronze figures, claimed 

 to have been carved in wood by Simeon Skillin and cast in bronze 

 by Paul Revere. Although the instrument was made for Harvard, 

 the university lacked funds for its purchase. Accordingly, it held 

 a public lottery which realized a substantial sum in excess of 

 the £450.3.0 paid to Pope, and the orrery was delivered in De- 



^^ 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. 



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