

Figure 26. — The label of Goldsmith Chandlee. In the collection of Ohio His- 

 torical Society, Ohio State Museum. 



Ellis Chandlee (1755-1816) also was apprenticed to his father, 

 and he worked with his brothers in the shop. He established the 

 firm of Ellis Chandlee & Brothers, in 1790, shortly before his 

 father's death. The firm was dissolved in 1797 when the youngest 

 brother, John Chandlee, left the firm. Ellis continued in partner- 

 ship with his other brother, Isaac Chandlee (1760-1813), until 

 about 1804, producing clocks, surveying instruments, and other 

 metal articles. Their products were signed "Ellis and Isaac 

 Chandlee, Nottingham," or, in the case of a surveying compass in 

 the collection of the Chester County Historical Society, "E. & I. 

 Chandlee, Nottingham." Isaac Chandlee also produced clocks 

 and instruments under his own name only, for there are a number 

 of surviving clocks and surveying compasses signed in such manner 

 (see fig. 28)/^ 



^^ Edward E. Chandlee, Six Quaker Clockmakers (Philadelphia: Historical 

 Society of Pennsylvania, 1943), pp. 70, 193, 212, 220-223. 



ss 



