The subscriber having commenced business at the shop lately occupied 

 by Mr. Isaac Doolittle, in Chapel Street, where he repairs watches, makes 

 and repairs Surveyors Compasses and Chains, Brass Amplitude, plain brass 

 and common Ship's Compasses, Gauging Rods, Quadrants, repjiir'd &c. 

 every favor gratefully received by the public's humble servant, Isaac Doo- 

 little, jun. 



Enos Doolittle (1751-1806), a nephew of Isaac Doolittle, Sr., 

 made, sold, cleaned, and repaired clocks and surveying and marine 

 compasses from 1772 through 1788 at his shop in Hartford. He 

 also sold these items through agents in Saybrook and Middleton.** 



One of the best known of the Connecticut clockmakers was 

 Peregrine White (1747-1834), of Woodstock. White was a 

 descendant of the first Pilgrim child, and a native of Boston. 

 After serving an apprenticeship, he worked as a clockmaker 

 and silversmith in Boston. He was accused of forging silver 

 spoons and left the city to settle in Woodstock. He established, 

 his own shop west of Muddy Brook Village."*^ In addition to 

 fine tall-case clocks, for which he was noted. White also produced 

 surveying compasses, one of which is in the collection of the U.S. 

 National Museum (fig. 23). A similar specimen in Old Stur- 

 bridge Village is reputed to have been used for surveying the town 

 of Southbridge, Mass. 



Benjamin Hanks (1755-1824), of Mansfield and Litchfield, in- 

 serted a notice in a newspaper in 1808 to notify the public that he 

 and his son Truman Hanks, in partnership, had "surveyors com- 

 passes upon the Rittenhouse improved plan" in addition to such 

 other commodities as brass cannon, bells from their own foundry, 

 clocks, goldsmith's items, and stocking looms. ''^ 



Ziba Blakslee (1768-1834), of Newton, worked as a clockmaker, 

 goldsmith, and bell founder and he advertised that he made and 

 sold surveying instruments.*^ 



In New Haven, Clark Sibley and Simeon Marble organized the 

 firm of Sibley & Marble and advertised that in addition to repairing 

 swords and cutlasses, clocks and watches, they also repaired 

 mathematical and surgical instruments.^'' 



" 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. 



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