New Hampshire, where he became the local postmaster, and where 

 Dartmouth College records his death. 



Only one existing instrument is known to have been made by 

 Baldwin; it is a wooden surveying compass with a brass dial 

 having two scales, one for degrees and one for eight divisions 

 per 90°. The dial is inscribed "jED baldwin/hanover," Accord- 

 ing to its present owner, Mr. Worth Shampeny of Rochester, 

 Vermont, the compass was used for surveying in Vermont during 

 the early 1800's. 



i^nother Jedidiah Baldwin worked as a clockmaker in Morris- 

 ville. New York, from 1818-1820 and then in Fairfield, New York; 

 he appears also in the city directory of Rochester, New York, as a 

 clockmaker during the years 1834-1844. He may have been a son 

 or grandson of the first Jedidiah, or a nephew. 



Thomas Salter Bowles 



Thomas Salter Bowles (c. 1765-?) is another elusive New England 

 instrument maker about whom little information is available. 

 He is believed to have been the son of Deacon Samuel and Hannah 

 (Salter) Bowles, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, probably 

 between 1765 and 1770. His father was born in 1739; his mother, 

 who was the daughter of Captain Titus Salter, was born in 1748 

 and died in 1831.^'^ Deacon Bowles was clerk of the Brick Market 

 in Portsmouth from 1801 to the time of his death, November 3, 

 1802. There is a minimum of information available from church 

 and city records in the community, but it is believed that he was 

 a member of one of the offshoots of the established Puritan Church, 

 and hence he would not appear in its records. He kept the lower 

 school in the Brick School House on State Street for a number of 

 years. 



It is believed that the Bowles family first came to Portsmouth 

 during the few years immediately before the beginning of the 

 Revolutionary War. It is known that a Thomas Bowles and a 

 Samuel Bowles both signed the Association Test on August 14, 

 1776, promising to oppose the hostile proceedings of the British 

 fleets and armies. Furthermore, one of the principal taxpayers in 

 Portsmouth in 1770 was a firm named Griffith and Bowles, which 

 paid £17 in taxes in 1770. The name of the Bowles who formed 

 part of this firm is not known, but it was either Samuel or the first 



'^■^ Correspondence with Mr. Ray Brighton, Portsmouth, N. H. 



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