Benjamin Warren 



Production of wooden surveying compasses was not limited to 

 Boston. Another instrument maker who produced them was Ben- 

 jamin Warren (c. 1740-?) of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The name 

 of Benjamin Warren was a fairly common one in Plymouth, being a 

 name handed down in the family from father to son for at least 

 five generations before 1800. The first Benjamin Warren at Plym- 

 outh was married in 1697, and his son Benjamin (2) was born in 



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Figure 60. — An advertisement of Benjamin Warren in The Plymouth Journal & 

 Massachusetts Advertiser. Photos courtesy The American Antiquarian Society, 

 Worcester, Massachusetts. 



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