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Clocks and MovementsIntroductory

It is appropriate to now look at the information in the Company Book53 relating to the clocks and movements produced by Hopkins & Alfred. Author S. T., starting the movement tabulation, promptly learned that an alarm clock is fi rst mentioned on page 6 (March 13, 1834), and 8-d. clocks on page 8 (March 29, 1834). However, no type 2B2.171 30-hr. movement (the earliest type) has been reported with an alarm. So it must be assumed that the 30-hr. movements reported in the day book are of the second Hopkins & Alfred type, namely, Leavenworth-style 30-hr. type 2D1.1.71 Relative to 8-d. movements, the authors found no historical mention of such until reported in the Company Book. Rogers and Taylor79 classify these as part of 8-d. “Group 2 – Seth Thomas,” in particular 8-d. type 2.679 wood move-ments made by Hopkins & Alfred. So 30-hr. type 2D1.1 and 8-d. type 2.6 wood movements are the ones extracted and tabulated from the day book.

A Few Pre-Company Book 30-Hr. Type 2B2.1 Introductory ExamplesFirst, we present here a few clocks with the earlier type 2B2.171 Hop-

kins & Alfred movement, all judged to predate the Company Book. See also Figures 52A-52C and 53A-53B, presented earlier in Part 2A. Figure 57 shows a type 2B2.1 movement which is believed to have been incorrectly installed in a Wadsworths & Turners case. That fi rm

Figure 57. Hopkins & Alfred type 2B2.1 30-hr. wood movement found in a Wadsworths and Turners case, judged to be an incorrect marriage. Movement judged to be early because of extra access holes in the plate. Bushing on fi rst time arbor not original.

is judged to have ended in 1830.18 The movement is very similar to that of Fig-ure 52C, but note the three extra viewing holes, judged to be an early feature. A pil-lar and scroll clock with the 2B2.1 move-ment, like Figure 52C, is shown in Figures 58A-58D. These show the clock, the back, the label, and the movement, respectively. The back shows that the returns, on the

Figure 58A, far left. Hopkins & Alfred pillar and scroll clock with type 2B2.1 movement.Figure 58B, left. Back of clock of Figure 58A. Note the unusual feature of plinths at the rears of the returns.

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The Hopkins Clockmakersof Litchfi eld and Harwinton, CT

Part 2B. Hopkins & Alfred, Harwintonby Bryan Vernimb (NJ) and Snowden Taylor (NY)

Part 2A. Hopkins & Alfred, Harwinton, was published in W&C Bulletin No. 407 (Jan./Feb. 2013): pp. 59-75. Parts 1A and 1B, both per-taining to Asa Hopkins, were published in W&C Bulletin No. 392 (June 2011): pp. 278-301, and No. 393 (August 2011): pp. 421-433.

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Figure 58C, right. Label of clock of Figure 58A, like thatof Figure 52B, but badly stained.

Figure 58D, far right. Type 2B2.130-hr. wood movement madeby Hopkins& Alfred, in clockof Figure 58A.

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Figure 59A, far left. Hopkins & Alfred carved clock with 2B2.1 movement, as found.

Figure 59B, left. Label of clock of Figure 59A, same as labels of Figures 52B and 58C.

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left. Type 2B2.1 movement made by Hopkins & Alfred, in clock of Figure 59A.

Figure 59D, left. Back of movement of Figure 59C. Note single access hole, which is normal.



top, have rear plinths like the front, but without fi nials. The label, badly stained, is just like that of Figure 52B. A Hopkins & Alfred carved clock is shown in Figures 59A-59D, picturing the clock (as found), label, movement, and movement back, respectively. The label and movement are just like those of Figures 58C and 58D. Note in the movement back view, Figure 59D, that one extra viewing hole persists, which is usual.

Like most movement makers, some Hopkins & Alfred products reached out-side markets. Figures 60A and 60B show the label (said to be in a pillar and scroll case) and movement of one such clock. The label is by “WM. P. M’KAY & CO. / Corner of Milk and Congress Streets, / Bos-ton.” The fi rm and address are verifi ed by a 1998 compilation of Horological Listings, 1841-1871, from the Boston Almanac Di-rectories by Sonya Spittler. The movement is typical Hopkins & Alfred 2B2.1

Finally, we show Figures 61A and 61B of a loose movement, many parts missing, but clearly of 2B2.1 type. However, some small differences from the standard are evident. The turnings around the pivot holes have narrow rings and broad, fl at cups, and the back shows no extra viewing hole. This move-ment may not have been made by Hopkins & Alfred.

Figures 57 and 61A have been used before.101

Table 4–Company Book Clock DataNow to the movements believed

to be of the date range of the Com-pany Book, 1834-1839, namely, 30-hr. type 2D1.1 and 8-d. type 2.6. In two-page Table 4 (after the groups of illustrative clock pictures), we pre-sent a listing of all Hopkins & Alfred clocks and movements mentioned in the book. One must go through the book, recording the description, price, and date of every clock. Dates advance from top to bottom (columns #1 and #17). The quality (and usually the cost) of the clocks starts at the left, next to the date column, and decreases from left to right on each page (except for the uncased alarm clock movements, uncased non-alarm movements, and alarm mechanisms, which follow the clock groups to which they pertain). Alarm clocks are con-sidered higher quality than non-alarms, and 8-d. clocks higher quality then 30-hr. clocks (“common” is used uniquely to specify “30-hr.” or “1-day”). With few excep-

tions, which will be briefl y discussed, the book designates one of three case styles for both 8-d. (columns #2 - #7) and 30-hr. (columns #18 - #23) clocks, namely, carved, plain, and bronzed. Into these grids of clock type versus date, one enters the number of observations of that clock type at that particular date, including typical prices.

Table 4–Company Book 8-d. Clock DataThe fi rst clock column (#2), top of the line, is for 8-d.

carved alarm clocks. The upper left corner box is for carved 8-d. alarm clocks in the year 1834. Note that 2 were found, with typical prices $10.00-$10.25. Then

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Figure 61A, left. Type 2B2.1 movement, many parts missing, but with a few atypical features, such as the small-ringed, large fl at-bottomed cups around the pivots. See text. Figure 61B, right. Back of movement of Figure 61A, with same atypical cups. Also, there is no access hole on the back. Movement possibly not made by Hopkins & Alfred.

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Figure 60A, left. Label of a pillar and scroll clock stating, “BRASS AND WOOD / CLOCKS, / OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, / WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY / WM. P. M’KAY & CO. / Corner of Milk and Congress Streets, / Boston”. Figure 60B, right. Type 2B2.1 movement, by Hopkins & Alfred, found in the clock with label of Figure 60A.



working down, we fi nd 5 clocks, typical price $9.00, and so forth. Note, at bottom, that only 16 were reported. The non-alarm (ordinary) 8-d. carved clocks are listed in the second clock column (#3), and total to 201, always more than the corresponding alarm clocks (although Hopkins & Alfred produced an unusual number of alarm clocks). The next two columns (#4 and #5) repeat the same pat-tern for plain 8-d. clocks, which, as the table shows, most-ly got a late start in the book, reducing their totals. The next two clock columns (#6 and #7) tabulate the numbers of 8-d. bronzed alarm and non-alarm clocks. We have assumed that the higher the quality, the more likely for it to be mentioned. So “one 8-d. clock” is assumed to be bronzed without alarm, the lowest quality. One “plain 8-d. column and scroll clock” is treated as being an 8-d. plain clock.

Below and to the right of the six clock columns (#2-#7) are totals lines and columns. On the fi rst line below are the totals of the 8-d. alarm clock columns, and on the second line are the totals for the three non-alarm col-umns. To the right, in the fi rst extra column (#8), are the totals for the 8-d. alarm clocks for each year, and in the second (#9) are the totals for the non-alarm (ordinary) clocks for each year. In the third column (#10) at the right are the sums of the fi rst two (#8 and #9), and hence the total number of 8-d.clocks of all kinds for the same year.

At the lower right corner of the clock tabulations, note that the intersection of the fi rst extra row and fi rst extra column (#8) is the number 29, the sum of both the row and the column numbers, and hence the total number of 8-d. alarm clocks found in the Company Book. Simi-larly, the sum of the second extra row and second extra column (#9), namely 434, is the number of non-alarm 8-d. clocks found in the book. The number 463 at the in-tersection of the third extra row and third extra column (#10) is the total number of 8-d. clocks of all kinds.

The 8-d. clock movements are treated in the same way, but there are only two kinds, alarm and non-alarm (or

ordinary). The numbers found in the book, and prices given, for each kind, at each date, are entered in the two alarm columns (#11 and #12). The numbers are totaled below. We see 13 8-d. alarm movements and 17 8-d. or-dinary movements. For each date, the numbers from the movement columns (#11 and #12) are summed to the next column (#13) to produce a totals column (#13) with a grand total of 30 (13 + 17) at the bottom, for all alarm movements.

The last three columns (#14-#16) give the combined 8-d. clock and movement totals. The fi rst column (#14)of the three, combines the numbers for total 8-d. alarm clocks (column #8) with those for 8-d. alarm movements (column #11), giving a total of 42 at the bottom. The sec-ond (#15) of the last three columns does the same for 8-d. ordinary clocks (column #9) and movements (column #12), giving a total of 451. The third (#16) of the last three columns now combines the two previous columns (#14 and #15), giving a grand total of 493 for all kinds of 8-d. clocks and 8-d. movements. Looking at these fi gures, the best years were 1835 and 1836, a signifi cant improvement over 1834, the fi rst year of the Company Book. The year 1837 was signifi cantly down but still a good year over-all, about like 1834. The years of 1838 and 1839 for 8-d clocks, though overall not much worse than 1837, show a decline in prices and products.

Author S. T. was aided in the above 8-d. clock tabula-tions by Reference 87, which gives 15 pages on the fi rm of Hopkins & Alfred, written and compiled by Newton Lockwood, then owner of the Company Book, who did an analysis of the book, somewhat like the one now being done. His work aided the present author in fi nding some errors. (Some errors of his were also uncovered.)

A Few 8-day Type 2.6 ExamplesHerewith some 8-d. Hopkins & Alfred clocks and

movements, all type 2.6, will be examined. Figure 62A-62C show the whole clock, label, and movement of an

Figure 62A, right. Hopkins & Alfred carved clock with 8-d. type 2.6 movement.Figure 62B, above. Label of clock of Figure 62A. Printer’s line is “H. Adams, Printer, Litchfi eld”. Figure 62C, far right. Eight-day type 2.6 wood movement, made by Hopkins & Alfred, from clock of Figure 62A. Note walnut (or mahogany) plates.

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8-d. carved clock, the fi rst two of which have been shown previously.79 Figures 63A-63C picture the whole clock, label, and movement of an 8-d. bronzed clock. Figures 62C and 63C illustrate 8-d. wood shelf clock

movements type 2.6,79 both with mahogany (or perhaps walnut) plates, made by Hopkins & Alfred. As previously said such movements are part of “Group 2 – Seth Thom-as”.79 A type 2.679 alarm movement, now with oak plates, by Hopkins & Alfred is shown in Figure 64. Hopkins & Alfred made relatively complicated alarm movements, this one being somewhat similar to the Seth Thomas type alarm.79, 80 An earlier and even more complicated one is known.111 Three other photos of other type 2.6, but in-complete, movements are shown in Figures 79, 80A, and 80B.

Table 4–Company Book 30-hr. Clock DataReturning to Table 4 for 30-hr. clocks and movements,

the second page essentially repeats the fi rst. However, there are more oddballs among the 30-hr. movements. We use our assumption that high quality is more likely to be mentioned than low. “One clock” is interpreted as a non-alarm, 30-hr. bronzed clock. Several “long bronzed common clocks,” “long bronzed clocks,” and one “short bronzed clock,” all in 1834, were classifi ed as 30-hr.

Figure 63A, right. Hopkins & Alfred bronzed clock with 8-d. type 2.6 movement. Figure 63B, above Label of clock of Figure 63A, just like Figure 62B. Figure 63C, far right. Eight-day type 2.6 wood movement, made by Hopkins & Alfred, just like Figure 62C, from clock of Figure 62A.

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bronzed clocks. “One Plain column & scroll clock,” and “one plain common col-umn & scroll clock,” both in 1835, were assumed to be 30-hr. plain clocks. (“Plain” seems to mean var-nished, not carved or bronzed, hence includes pillar and scroll clocks.) “One looking glass clock” was assumed to be a 30-hr. bronzed clock. Note that there are 3,109 30-hr. clocks (column #26) and 819 30-hr. movements (column #29), and 3,928 combined 30-hr. clocks and movements (column #32), all as done for 8-ds.

At the far right of the second page of Table 4 there are fi ve additional columns. The fi rst (column #33), summing columns #10 and #26, gives all clocks, both 8-d. and 30-hr., with a total of 3,572. The second (column #34), sum-ming columns #13 and #29, gives all movements totaling to 849. The third (column #35), summing columns #16 and #32, gives all clocks and movements, with a grand total of 4,421. The fourth additional column (#36) gives all alarm mechanisms, and the fi fth (#37) gives clocks, movements, and alarm mechanisms, all combined for a grand total of 4,478.

Some 30-hr. Type 2D1.1 ExamplesFigure 65 illustrates the second Hopkins & Alfred 30-

hr. wooden movement, the one that is tabulated in the

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second page of Table 4. It is Leavenworth style, type 2D1.1,71 which has even fewer Leavenworth features than the fi rst type 2B2.1 See Figure 57 and Figure 65 above, and compare. While the trains of 2D1.1 movements are very Terry-like, the layouts are not. Type 2D1.1 and the earlier 2B2.1 movements, both 30-hr., have dials that will interchange with each other and with other Leav-

Figure 66A, far left. Hopkins & Alfred bronzed clock with 30-hr. type 2D1.1 movement, splat and tablet missing.Figure 66B, left. Interior of clock of Figure 66A showing label and 30-hr. type 2D1.1 movement made by Hopkins & Alfred.

Figure 67A, left. Hopkins & Alfred carved clock with 30-hr. type 2D1.1 alarm movement. Figure 67B, center. Label of clock of Figure 67A, similar to that of Figure 66B. Figure 67C, right. Thirty-hour type 2D1.1 wood alarm movement, made by Hopkins & Alfred. Movement badly restored. Should look more like Figure 68.

enworth-style movements, but they will not interchange with Terry-style 30-hr. move-ments.84 Figure 65 has been used before.70

Figures 66A and 66B show a 30-hr. bronzed case Hopkins & Alfred clock with a type 2D1.1 movement. A 30-hr. carved alarm clock by Hopkins & Alfred is shown in Figure 67A (clock), Figure 67B (label), and Figure 67C (2D1.171 alarm movement). The latter movement is badly restored. This is the earlier alarm type. Originally, it would have looked more like Figure 68, which is a complete 2D1.1 movement with the earlier alarm. A rather grand Hopkins & Alfred 30-hr. alarm clock, with perhaps a plain (not carved or bronzed) case is shown in Figures

69A-69C, showing, respectively, the whole clock, the in-terior (with label, movement, and weights), and the type 2D1.1 movement with a later style alarm. Compare this alarm to that in the 8-d. clock of Figure 64. The labels of Figures 66B and 67B seem to be similar but perhaps not identical, and both are later than those of Figures 58C and 59B.

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Summing UpWe have seen above in Part 2A

in the section “Edward Hopkins—Speculations” that on March 21 and April 12, 1839, Edward Hopkins de-livered back to Hopkins & Alfred 22 8-d. clocks and 229 presumed 30-hr. clocks, respectively, believed to be the unsold remainder of the clocks “on contract for factory” com-menced on April 9, 1836. How to treat these returns in Table 4? It was clear that some (or all?) were being resold, so author S. T. decided to sub-tract them out from Table 4, starting from the latest shown in 1839, and working back to 1838 as needed. No other years were involved.

Before leaving the subject of clocks, one should remember that the fi rst Hopkins & Alfred movements appear in the spring of 1831. Return momen-tarily to the section “The First Move-ments” in Part 2A and read to “Figure 45A” and its discussion in the text. All items in Figure 45A marked with a black square are recorded in a small table at the bottom marked “to Hopkins & Alfred”. The total is 908. After much

thought author S. T. concluded that the 908 cases were sent to the Hop-kins & Alfred shop to have Hopkins & Alfred movements installed in them. For our present tally, that increases the clock count (or move-ment count?) by 908 for the year 1831. Close to the end of the same section, author S. T. fi nally con-cluded that Hopkins & Alfred were still struggling with some of these clocks well into 1832.

The second page of Table 4 shows that a total of 765 clocks and move-ments of all kinds were recorded in the Company Book for 1834. Now guess that the fi gure for 1833 was 600. For 1832 guess that there were 400 clocks and movements, includ-ing 100 clocks that spill over from the 908. This gives a total of 1,808 for 1831-1833.

The previous grand total clocks and movements for the years 1834-1839 from the second page of Table 4 was 4,421. That gives

our estimate for 1831-1839 as 6,229 clocks and movements, with an error of a couple of hundred.

Figure 68. Another 30-hr. type 2D1.171 wood alarm movement, with complete earlier alarm.

Figure 69A, left. Hopkins & Alfred plain (varnished) clock with 30-hr. type 2D1.1 alarm movement. Figure 69B, center. Interior of clock of Figure 69A, showing movement and label, the latter seeming similar to those of Figures 66B and 67B. Figure 69C, right. Thirty-hour type 2D1.171 wood alarm movement, made by Hopkins & Alfred, from clock of Figure 69A. A later alarm version than that of Figure 68. Compare to 8-d. alarm movement, Figure 64.

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Carved 8-D Alarm Clocks

Carved 8-D Ordinary Clocks

Plain 8-D Alarm Clocks

Plain 8-D Ordinary Clocks

Bronzed 8-D Alarm Clocks

Bronzed 8-D Ordinary Clocks

8-D Alarm Clock Total

8-D Ord. Clock Total

8-D Clock Grand Total

8-D Alarm Movements

8-D Ordinary Movements

8-D Movement Total

8-D Alarm Clock & Mvt. Total

8-D Ord. Clock & Mvt. Total

8-D Clock & Mvt. Grand Total

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Carved 30-Hr. Alarm Clocks

Carved 30-Hr. Ordinary Clocks

Plain 30-Hr. Alarm Clocks

Plain 30-Hr. Ordinary Clocks

Bronzed 30-Hr. Alarm Clocks

Bronzed 30-Hr. Ordinary Clocks

30-Hr. Alarm Clock Total

30-Hr. Ord. Clock Total

30-Hr. Clock Grand Total

30-Hr. Alarm Movements

30-Hr. Ordinary Movements

30-Hr. Movement Total

30-Hr. Alarm Clock & Mvt. Total

30-Hr. Ord. Clock & Mvt. Total

30-Hr. Clock & Mvt. Grand Total

1834

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9 97

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158

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All Movements Grand Total

All Clocks & Mvts. Grand Total

Alarm Mechanisms

All Clocks, Mvts. & Alarm Mech. Grand Total

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Customers, Suppliers, Employees, and OthersWith Table 4 completed, author S. T. proceeded with

Tables 5-8, which would list Customers, Suppliers, Em-ployees, and Others. It should be noted that these catego-ries are not as precise as they would seem. In an economy where all parties have “books,” very little cash fl ows. For example, Hopkins & Alfred sell clocks to Mr. X, who pays with lumber. Is Mr. X a customer or a supplier? It would depend on the proportion (by value) of each. Similar problems arise with Employees. There were no employees in the modern sense. People sold their time just as they would sell lumber. So again it would depend on propor-tions sold. The present day book is particularly bad in that Cr/By entries are often omitted, particularly for work time and small parts. So we proceed, but with full un-derstandings that the category assigned to many persons may be wrong. Nevertheless, most persons were associ-ated with the Company in some way, or they would not have had accounts in the day book. The intention has been to include everyone with an account in the Com-pany Book, plus a few without accounts, but mentioned in accounts, that seemed interesting.

Table 5 lists Customers. Almost always this means that clocks or movements are involved. After those words (see Table 5), symbols (S), (M), & (L) mean small, medium, and large defi ned as 1-9, 9-99, and 100 and up. The duality of Customer/Supplier shows up. Note Eleaser Hawley takes “clocks (M)” but also is credited for “78 painted glass”. There are other comments of interest. Samuel Brown is debited for clocks (M) and also “making his child a wag-on”. Note that one of the clocks taken by Joseph S. North was sent to S. Hoadley.

Next are listed Suppliers in Table 6. The clock plates brought in by “Mr. Baldwin” would have been roughly cut to size and thickness. Similarly, the 4,500 pinions brought in by Caleb Morse would have been twigs, cut roughly to length, usually from mountain laurel, called “ivy”,112 with pinion leaves not yet cut. The symbol (L) has been used for particular large deliveries of certain supplies, but with no precise defi nition. Note Anson Johnson. His name ap-pears in Reference 94, so it is not just an error for Addison Johnson (listed under Employees).

Table 5 - Customers

Name Brings Takes

William Alcott pine bark stuff, pine boards clocks (M), alarm, clock box, portrait by Mr. Turney,

turning handles, cash

Albro Alfred, brother of Augustus Alfred clocks (M)

Roswell Alfred, uncle of Augustus Alfred clocks (S)

Leonard Baldwin clocks (M)

Luther Bissel [sic-Bissell], casemaker for Hodges70 movement (S)

Samuel Brown cash, hat, mackeral, transport, clocks (M), making his child a wagon

wheat fl our

Jabez Camp, partner of Asa Hopkins clock (S)

in fl ute shop

Ransom Castle clocks (S)

Nathan Dickinson, Amherst, Mass. clocks (S)

Everitt & Davis cash clocks (S)

Nathan French, 2nd, neighbor, on contract clocks (M)

Thomas F. Fuller, Bristol, CT, clockmaker35 clocks (M)

Edward Garnsay, “care of John Saxton cash, shoes, bridle, leather clocks (L), alarms, hands

N. York by Steam boat Line”.

Gross Gates clocks (S), repairing a clock

William Grilley, “149 North 4th St., notes, cash clocks (L)

Philadelphia, care of Lewis H. Thompson,

agents of Union Line or Packets”



Table 5 - Customers (cont.)

Name Brings Takes

Andrews Hall small jobs, leather clocks (S)

Calvin Hall note, cash clocks (M), horse, wagon, harness

Joel Hall (or Holl) watch clocks (L)

Eleazer Hawley painting 78 glass clocks (M)

Sylvester Hine cash, oysters & clams, clocks (S)

transport

Hugh Kerney [sic-Kearney], clock producer, movements (M), face bushings, lock keys

Wolcottville, CT70

Michael LaCosta, New York cash clocks (M)

Prosper Merrills; some “clocks left by cash, leather, peddling, clocks clocks (M), weights

G Halin Kingston at farmers Hotel”

Lewis Morris, clockmaker for Hodges70 clocks (S), movement (S), alarms, looking glass,

weights, face

David Morse, Litchfi eld, CT, neighbor cash, shad clocks (S)

Riley Morse, on contract boxes, watch clocks (M), weights

Edward Nettleton clocks (S)

Merrit Nichols clocks (S)

Joseph S. North, son of Norris North70 note clocks (S) (one to S. Hoadley), watch verge

Edwin Perkins, “care of James B. Cox, cash clocks (L)

N. Brunswick N. Jersey”

Eli D. & Gardner Preston, Harwinton, CT, clocks (S), weights

neighbors

Eli D. Preston, Harwinton, CT, neighbor, clocks (S)

became a clockmaker18

Gardner Preston, Harwinton, CT, neighbor, clocks (M), assistance in reckoning

became a dial maker94

Dennis Smith clocks (S)

James S. Smith, 168 North 4th St., Philadelphia, cash, checks clocks (L), clock parts, portraits

PA, “N. Brunswick Canal Line”, or (later)

“Union & transportation Line”

Lewis Smith goods clocks (M)

Truman Smith, Litchfi eld, CT, attorney for clocks (S)

Norris North and Erastus Hodges70

Sidney Treadway movements (M)

George Wadhams, Wolcottville, merchant70 clocks (S), face bushings, touch wires, wind keys, wire,

and clock producer; see Figure 26B, Part 1B putting verges to clocks

Moses Waugh, Torrington, CT, wagon maker clocks (S), looking glass

and clock parts carver70



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Table 6 - Suppliers

Name Brings Takes

Erastus Baldwin, Harwinton, CT, neighbor timber making a broad measure

Mr. Baldwin clock plates (L)

L. & W. (probably Lorin & Walter) Bates weights clocks (S)

Lorrin [sic-Lorin] Bates, fi rst cousin of Edward “fraim” pillars (L) cash, 2-horse wagon, blacksmith work, cash for interest

Hopkins, partner to Asa Hopkins

Abel Benedict, provided weights to North 10 lb, 12 lb., 8-d., 30-hr., clocks (M), cash

and Hodges70 common, and clock weights

Abel Benedict & Co. large and small weights cash

Charles Blakeslee keys, “clics”

M. & Edward (usually M. & E.)18 Blakeslee, brass, hard brass, 341 clock 1,000 locks

clockmakers plates (271 rough), 2 lbs.

14 oz. of crown wheels

Harvey Bronson clock cord

Daniel Catlin, storekeeper goods clocks (M), cash

Abiel Elmer hemlock boards watch

Mr. Elmer (see Wm. Pierpont & Elmer & Co.)

Ann Ely, daughter of Huldah Ely, see bronzing columns @ 2¢ &

Reference 90 scrolls at 1¢

Huldah (Alfred) Ely, cousin of Augustus Alfred, clock faces @ 35¢ clock (S), cash, shoes, order on Noble’s store

see Reference 90

Henry Fenn transport, pay freight cash

Hotchkiss & Son, New Haven transport mahogany logs

Trumbull Ives pine back stuff, basswood

columns

Anson Johnson applewood boards repairing & making tools

Aaron Marsh appletree plank, maple plank, clock (S)

veal

Caleb Morse, Litchfield, CT, neighbor 4,500 pinions mending snathe, linseed oil, turpentine, glass portraits

James Nicols carving 83 scrolls clocks (S), cash

Capt. Phineas W. Noble, storekeeper goods clocks (L), lock keys, main wheels

Wm Pierpont & Elmer & Co. chestnut boards; & for end $100 cash through Mr. Pierpont; $5

Mr. Elmer stuff; 18"; large (L)

Elizar Pritchard escutcheons locks

Gilliam Rutan carving

J. C. & A. Wadsworth, storekeepers flour

Geo. Welch & Son, Bristol; “Son” was the 8-d., common, alarm, & cash

future clockmaker Elisha Niles Welch113 round weights, bells

Mesrs Perk & Baron Woodbury 50 m 1" & 52m, 1-1/4" brads cash to balance



Table 7 lists Employees and Probable Employees marked with (P). The lack of Cr/By entries has shortened this list.

Table 7 - Employees and Probable Employees (P)

Name Brings Takes

Cynthia Alfred, sister of Augustus Alfred, painting

decorative painter

Job Alfred (P), father of Augustus Alfred chestnut & pine boards, nails, white lead, oil, pair of

martingales

Julius Alfred, brother of Augustus Alfred “work and sundries from clocks (S)

his book”

Louisa Alfred, sister of Augustus Alfred, painting

decorative painter

Jason Curtiss day’s work with team, $1.50

Addison Johnson, assisted Thomas Moses in making 253 8-d, 150 30-hr., clocks (M), movements (L), bells, labels, hinges, cord, lock

casemaking for Hodges,70 now casemaker, 206 common, and 657 clock keys, glass, weights, bob screws, lower glass, pully caps,

probably contract cases, all @ 90¢; furnishing faces, set of carvings, columns, glue, varnish, bronzing,

veneer and veneering copal gum, cherry boards, mahogany transporting, face

columns, furnishing stock rack, fi tting clocks, making tools, center bit, use of saw,

and making scrolls; bells cash

John Marks (P) goods, saddle, mending saw, mending watch, looking glass,

making lid and staining and varnishing chest, cash

Erwin Marsh (P) back stuff, “glew”, varnish, shoes, shot, cash

Lucy Merchant, possible relative of Edna painting

Marchant, wife of Augustus Alfred; decorative

painter

Thomas Moses, casemaker for Hodges70, now making 42 8-d., 275 common, clocks (M), movements (L), looking glasses, lock keys, pulleys,

contract casemaker and 768 clock cases, all @ faces, face bushings, bells, hinges, locks, escutcheons, pins,

90¢; looking glasses, upper brass pins, weights, balls, brads, turpentine, varnish, lock

glasses, faces, weights, balls, screws, sandpaper, nails, back stuff, banding, pine stuff,

escutcheons, Venetian red mahogany, pine, fi tting clocks into cases, clock boxes

Harvey Moulton, friend of Norris North in sundries for press, 1,500 lock- board, order on Noble

Waterbury, CT, where North sold out to him and turns, “roaling” 1,900 rods,

his wife; came to Torrington as a clock worker 1-1/2 days work, work, cash

to Hodges;70 now to H. & A.

Frederick Thorp (P) 4 wks, 5 d. board, order on Noble

Samuel Weeks (P) watch, tobacco, hat, goods, order on Noble

Calvin Wilcox work, 6 days work, setting pewter, lead, steel, powder, tobacco, fish hooks, paper,

sashes, 20-1/2 days work @ penknife, goods, order on Noble, cash

$12 per mo.



Table 8 - Others

Name Brings Takes

Barnabus B. Alfred, brother of Augustus Alfred powder & shot, cash

James H. Alfred breaking watch spring, tobacco, order on Noble, cash

Joseph Baldwin fi xing his cross cut saw, putting glass in his frame

Walter Bates, probable son of Lorin Bates shoes, goods at Noble’s, cash

Charles Booth cash $7.00

John Bradley pressing 10300 verge patterns (L)

Joel Castle tobacco, powder & lead, goods at Noble’s, cash

Meritt Clark turpentine, copal gum, “bronz,” transport of iron

Garner Curtiss, Litchfi eld, CT, neighbor wheel stuff, cherry boards, wicking, iron, lead, boarding, “boaring” head blocks to

crown wheels, screws drilling machine, white oak posts, mending a sawmill saw,

cord, cash, assistance in reckoning, “glew”, work on saw

machine, chestnut boards

Abraham B. Everitt fl ute & box, $15, cheese

Elijah Fenton beef cash

Goodwin & Galpin, storekeeper, probably order on their store balance a/c

partners in Asa Hopkins’ fl ute shop

Erastus Hall clock (S), 8.00 clocks (S), 8.00

Phebe Hopkins, Litchfi eld, CT, mother of Edward tea

Hopkins

D. W. Kellogg & Co., lithographers cash paid to

Elkanor Mansfi eld tobacco, order on Noble

Elanson Morris goods at Noble’s, cash

Augustus Morse transfer with David Morse

Lewis Morse cleaning clock & hand

L. W. Moses

Manlius North, son of Norris North, page 139 tobacco

Reference 70

Norris North, clockmaker70 order on Noble, goods for William, 3-square fi le, locks,

cash

William North, son of Norris North, page 139 goods at Noble’s, suspenders, ticking, cash

Reference 70

Isaac Perkins setting & fi ling saws, 3-square fi le, sandpaper, cash

Charles Smith $7.00 to balance a/c

Uri Taylor cash by order

David Winship, casemaker70 locks

Jerome Woodruff balance a/c

Finally, Others are listed in Table 8. Note that Abraham B. Everitt buys a “fl ute & box”. See more on Garner Curtiss in Part 1B of this chronicle. Note lithographer D. W. Kellogg & Co., and that, under Table 5 – Customers “portraits” were taken by William Alcott and James S. Smith, and under Table 6 – Suppliers, “glass portraits” by Caleb Morse. Was there a connection?



Chronology of the Day BookIt must be remembered that there was certainly a day

book prior to the one being studied. So the fi rm of Hop-kins & Alfred had no new beginning at the start of the Company Book.53

The fi rst sale of clocks reported in the day book, page 2, 1/29/1834, is as follows, “Joel Hall [or Holl] Dr / to 60 Long Bronzed clocks 295. / Discount 60 for weights 20c. 12.” All clock sales are tabulated in Table 4.

In the day book, on pages 2-6, there are nine entries of a particular form mentioning P. W. Noble or Capt. Noble. Picking one from page 3, it is an entry for Calvin Wil-cox, an employee of Hopkins & Alfred (see Table 7), dated 2/15/1834, and reads as follows, “Calvin Wilcox Dr / to an order on P. W. Noble 2”. All nine had some sort of a connection to Hopkins & Alfred. On page 8, 3/29/1834, we fi nd, “Phineas W. Noble, Dr / to 6 eight day bronzed Clocks $8.50 51. / to 12 Long bronzed common Clocks 5.50 66. / to 6 Lock keys 3c .18”. That is, Noble is buying clocks and parts from Hopkins & Alfred. In fact, Noble ran a store, sort of a “general store”, selling “goods”, which could include clocks (see Table 6). In our case, Wilcox was “known” to be connected to Hopkins & Alfred. (The au-thors do not know the details of “how”.) Hence he had credit with Noble, who let him take what is on the “or-der on P. W. Noble”. (Clearly a record is made, but we do not know details.) Hopkins & Alfred has already charged the employee on the day book, “Dr/to”. Noble was then “short” the amount of $2, the value of the “order on P. W. Noble.” Noble waited until many such transactions had taken place, and then ordered clocks from Hopkins & Alfred, which he sold from his store. (Obviously, all parties must have had “books”, but details are unknown.) Day books of other clock fi rms show similar patterns. In our case, the last purchase of clocks by Noble was on page 146, 1/23/1839; and the last day book entry for Noble, page 147, February 1839, is “P. W. Noble Cr / by goods .68”.

Thomas Moses appears fi rst in the Company Book53

on page 17 where it is recorded that on June 6, 1834, he bought “1 eight day clock movement” for $3.00. Moses had previously worked as a casemaker for Erastus Hodg-es.70 His undated contract with Hopkins & Alfred to make 1,200 cases for them, supplying all the stock, at 90 cents each is given in full in References 53 (not fully readable), 80, and 87. Reference 87 says the contract was written on the inside rear cover of the book, but actually it is on page 152. Payment for the 1,200 cases was to be in 600 move-ments of various specifi ed kinds and prices. Working out the numbers, the value of the cases Moses made would be $1,080, whereas the value of the movements he was paid with would be only $837.50. This seems unfair from the outset. However, in an odd way, it works out. When Moses delivers a batch of cases, he gets a credit on his books. He can then buy, on book, as many movements as his credit will cover. There is no practical way to limit the number of movements.

But movements are of little use to the casemaker unless cased. So the casemaker, Moses, had to make an addition-al 600 cases (or more) to hold his movements, plus provide all the extra small parts needed for his fi nished clocks. So, even as conceived, it was a complicated operation.

Moses’ next day book entry is on page 56, 4/27/1835, when he is debited for 100 clock movements @ $1.25. On June 11, 1835, he made his fi rst delivery, “by making 50 clock cases”. Moses’ last credit for cases, 87 in number, is on page 100, 6/23/1836. His last entry in the day book, page 102, is on July 13, 1836. As recorded, he produced (Table 7) 1,085 cases. This was a little short of the 1,200 called for in the contract. Moses then went to upper New York State, still working as a casemaker.114

Figures 70B and 70A, respectively, show the label and empty carved, no-door case of a clock which probably once held a Hopkins & Alfred type 2D1.171 30-hr. movement. The label reads, “IMPROVED / CLOCKS / Made by Hop-

Figure 70A, left. Empty carved case showing label stating “THOMAS MOSES”. Probably once held a 2D1.1 Hopkins & Alfred movement.

Figure 70B, left. Full view of label of case of Figure 70A. Note wording acknowledged Hopkins & Alfred as the movement maker, but emphasized Thomas Moses as the seller.

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Returning to 1834, the day book shows that Hugh Ker-ney [sic. Kearney] purchased clock movements, page 11, April 24, 1834, and again, on page 55, April 27, 1835. See Table 5. Figures 71A-71C show a pillar and scroll clock, back of the case, and label, respectively, the label read-ing identically to that of Figure 70B, except that “THOM-AS MOSES” is replaced by “HUGH KEARNEY”. Figures 72A and 72B show a poorly seen label and a 30-hr. type 2D1.171 Hopkins & Alfred movement, respectively, of a second Hugh Kearney clock. The label, Figure 72A is be-lieved to be exactly like that of Figure 71C.

Luther Bissel [sic. Bissell] bought a single alarm clock movement, presumably 30-hr., shown in the day book on page 13, May 8, 1834. See Table 5. Figures 73A-73D show a probably stenciled case (with miss-ing splat), label, type 2D1.171 alarm movement, and movement opened up, respectively. The label, Figure 73B, is again exactly like those of Figures 70B, 71C, and 72A, except the name is now “LUTHER BISSELL”. The alarm movement, Figures 73C and 73D, should be compared to those of Figures 67C and Figure 68, the latter being most nearly com-plete. The clock of Figures 73A-73D again reveals problems with the Company Book. Surely a special label was not printed for the single move-ment reported in the day book.

Author S. T.’s records82 show one more Hopkins & Alfred clock, 30-hr.

type 2D1.171 movement, with the “added name” of P. W. Noble, the storekeeper, discussed above.

The fi rst appearance in the day book of James S. Smith is on day book page 52, 4/2/1835, when he orders 24 clocks of fi ve different kinds. He is a known Philadel-phia clock dealer.115 The book entry for Smith on page 107, 9/28/1836, has been photocopied, and is presented as Figure 74. The slash marks at left are a common indicator that the day book entry had been posted to the ledger. Note that Smith, in this one transaction, received 1 or more clocks of 10 of the 12 varieties offered by Hopkins & Alfred. See Table 4. He continued to buy until the very end, his last transaction recorded in the day book on page 150, 10/15/1839, for 40 Hopkins & Alfred clocks. These

Figure 71A, far left. Pillar and scroll clock with Hopkins & Alfred movement, sold by Hugh Kearney. Figure 71B, center. Back of clock of Figure 71A. Figure 71C, right. Label of clock of Figure 71A, same style as Figure 70B, showing seller was Hugh Kearney.

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were the last clocks recorded as sold. James S. Smith had bought roughly 500 clocks, more than any other customer. One clock has been reported with a James S. Smith label and a Hopkins & Alfred 2D1.1 movement.82

The apparent replacement for Thomas Moses as contract case-maker was Addison Johnson, of-ten spelled Adison, who had pre-viously worked with Moses mak-ing cases for Erastus Hodges.70 There is no evidence of a new contract, and perhaps one was not needed. Addison Johnson’s name fi rst appears in the day book, page 99, 6/5/1836, where he is charged for making tools.

Figure 73A, left. Half-column and splat clock, splat missing, with Hopkins & Alfred alarm movement, sold by Luther Bissell. Figure 73B, above. Label of clock of 73A, same type as Figure 70B, showing seller was Luther Bissell. Figure 73D, below. Movement of Figure 73C, front plate removed and placed at right, interior of movement at left, all alarm parts missing.

Figure 74, right. Photocopy of part of page 107 of the Company Book, September 28, 1836, showing the record of a purchase of clocks for $250.50 by James S. Smith of Philadelphia, PA, Hopkins & Alfred’s largest customer, for 48 clocks, including one or more of clocks of 10 out of the 12 models offered by Hopkins & Alfred.

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On page 102, 7/15/1836, he is credited for “50 eight day cases” at 90 cents. Note the sequence of events in mid-1836: 6/5 Addison Johnson fi rst appears; 6/23 Thomas Moses delivers his last 87 clocks; 7/13 Thomas Moses’ last entry; 7/15 Addison Johnson delivers his fi rst 50 cases. It appears that Addison Johnson takes over fast! The au-thors believe this is true and that it was all planned in ad-vance. The situation is further confused in that one An-son Johnson had four day book entries interleaved with those above. However, “Anson” is not an error for “Ad-dison”, as accounts for Anson Johnson have been found in Reference 94. Addison Johnson’s last credit for cases and last appearance in the day book was on page 151 (last page of the day book proper), 4/1/1840, “by 8 eight day cases 7.20”. He had made 1,266 cases (Table 7). Addison Johnson seems to drop out of the clock business. However, author S. T. has a clock with his Wolcottville, Conn., label, but with a Terry-style 30-hr. wood movement type 7.15282 (ex 5.14271), maker unidentifi ed, defi nitely not Hodges or Hopkins & Al-fred. Figures 75A-75C show the clock, label, and movement, respectively. The lower glass is broken, and the lithograph is loose inside. Note the orientation of the 6 and 12 compared to the vertical. The photos have been used previously.70

Hopkins & Alfred was virtually at its end. The last regu-lar page of the Company Book, page 151, also contains the entry for March 1841: “Edward Hopkins Cr / by cash paid for Deed & recording .75”. It seems very late for the deed in which Edward Hopkins signed over all the Hopkins & Alfred property to Augustus Alfred.

Finally, on the same page, the last regular entry in the book is on February 26, 1842, “Then Reckoned with Au-gustus Alfred & balanced all Company accounts between

Hopkins & Alfred up to this Date”. The fi rm Hopkins & Alfred was ended.

The AftermathOf course, in the early 1840s things don’t end sudden-

ly. The authors found no additional evidence for debts being paid off by the fi rm Hopkins & Alfred. But there were debts to the company. In several such, the authors found that debtors were asked to cover the debts by mort-gage deeds. When such debts were paid, it was customary for the company to issue a quit-claim deed.

Several such pairs of deeds, and a few others, are pre-sented in Table 9. Deeds 1 and 2 are a mortgage and quit-claim pair involving Caleb Morse. In the Part 2A section on “The Hopkins & Alfred Clock Shop,” Caleb and David Morse leased property on the Litchfi eld side of the Wa-terbury River to Hopkins & Alfred so the company could build a dam, and in Table 6, Caleb is credited for making pinions (rough) for the company. Along the way, Caleb acquired a debt of $691 to the company, signing a note and issuing a mortgage. About a year later Hopkins & Al-fred issued a quit-claim deed to Caleb Morse for $500, apparently settling for $191 less than what was owed.

Deed 3 of Table 9 pertains to Nathan French. Table 5 shows that a medium-sized batch of clocks had been sold to Nathan French 2nd, possibly a son. This was for $246 “on contract” with “inst (interest) after 6 months”. The mortgage deed was for $1,000. It says that Nathan French and Riley Morse on 12/25/1839 executed a promissory note to Hopkins & Alfred. Riley Morse had also bought clocks (see Table 5), about $500 worth. Together with Na-than French 2nd, that makes about $750. That could have

Figure 75A, left. Stenciled half-pillar and splat 30-hr. wood movement clock by Addison Johnson. Lithograph tablet probably not original. Figure 75B, center. Addison Johnson label of clock of Figure 75A. Figure 75C, right. Thirty-hour Terry style wood movement, type 7.152,82 maker unknown but defi nitely not Hodges or Hopkins & Alfred, from clock of Figure 75A.

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called for a $1,000 mortgage. But we are really guessing that this was a clock debt. There was no quit-claim deed that the authors found, so maybe Nathan French lost his land, 88 acres in three pieces, in Litchfi eld, partly abut-ting Edward Hopkins.

Deeds 4 and 5 of Table 9 involve Jabez Camp, who had been a partner with Asa Hopkins in the musical in-strument business (see Part 1B of this chronicle). Table 5 shows that Jabez Camp had bought a clock from Hopkins & Alfred. The date of the mortgage, 9/7/1841, is exactly the date that Phillip Young2 says that Jabez Camp, hav-ing left the fl ute shop, bought Caleb Morse’s mill com-plex, just north of the Hopkins & Alfred clock shop. Ca-leb Morse had actually sold the mill site to Camp in two deeds, both dated 9/7/1841 (HLR, V14, page 269 and HLR, V14, page 270). Camp then mortgaged the mill complex to Alfred and Hopkins. Camp’s “new” mill was successful and he repaid Hopkins & Alfred in about six months.

Edward Hopkins’ fi rst cousin Lorin Bates was involved with deeds 6 and 7 of Table 9. Lorin had been charged for “cash for interest” (see Table 6), but apparently money was still owing. While both deeds state that the money was “a valuable sum”, the interior of the mortgage deed shows that the amount was $20. Apparently the money was paid, and a quit-claim deed was written about a year later.

Deeds 8 and 9 will be discussed later.

Edward Hopkins after ClockmakingThe 1840116 and 185073 U.S. Censuses for Litchfi eld

show Edward and Melissa Hopkins (see Figure 76) cor-rectly, fi rst with their three children and then four chil-dren, just as described in the genealogical sections early in Part 2A.1 The 1850 document lists both Edward and his oldest son Joseph H. as “farmer”. The real estate was valued at $3,500.

In Table 9 of the previous section, deed 8 was listed. The authors did not recognize Lascom Austin, the grantor of the 6/23/1852 quit-claim deed, but it reads as though Edward Hopkins had previously received the property by a mortgage deed, and now the debt, $400, had been paid off, and Hopkins was quit-claiming the property back to Austin. About 60 acres of land was involved, said to be located in “South part of sd Harwinton”.

The authors have had access to a photocopy of Curtis Sperry’s account book, the origi-nal of which is at the Hunger-ford Memorial Library/Museum of the Harwinton Historical So-ciety.94 The inside cover of the book, a ledger, is marked, “Curtis Sperry / Northfi eld / Connecticut

Table 9 - Deeds at the End of Hopkins & Alfred

No. Deed # Date Type To From Deed Amt Debt. Amt.

1. HLR, V14, p. 212 8/31/1840 mortgage Edward Hopkins & Caleb Morse $691 $691.80

Augustus Alfred

2. HLR, V14, p. 52 9/7/1841 quit-claim Caleb Morse Augustus Alfred & $500

Edward Hopkins

3. LLR, V41, p. 85 3/9/1841 mortgage Edward Hopkins & Nathan French $1000 $679.30

Augustus Alfred

4. HLR, V14, p. 271 9/7/1841 mortgage Augustus Alfred & Jabez M. Camp $2000 $734.19

Edward Hopkins

5. HLR, V14, p. 65 3/12/1842 quit-claim Jabez M. Camp Edward Hopkins & $734

Augustus Alfred

6. HLR, V14, p. 410 11/3/1843 mortgage Edward Hopkins Lorrain [sic-Lorin] Bates valuable sum $20

7. HLR, V14, p. 142 10/9/1844 quit-claim Lorrin [sic-Lorin] Bates Edward Hopkins valuable sum

8. HLR, ?, p. 499 6/23/1852 quit-claim Lascom Austin Edward Hopkins $400

9. HLR, V14, p. 113 7/18/1842 quit-claim Augustus Alfred Julius Alfred, Albro Alfred, $188.71

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/August 18th 1832”, and the inside fl yleaf, “Curtis Sperrys Account Book”. Examining 1832 entries, it is clear that Curtis is a “shoemaker”, making and mending footwear of all kinds for persons of all ages and both sexes, often naming the recipient. At an unknown date he moved to Harwinton. On September 22, 1840, he married Louisa Alfred, sister of Augustus Alfred and sister-in-law of Ed-ward Hopkins.1 By the early 1840s, Curtis is doing more house and barn building work: “framing”, “raising the frame”, “covering the barn”, etc., as an example, for one customer. By the mid-1840s Curtis is an organizer of the great Harwinton dial-making and dial decorating boom, with much of the record being carried on his ledger. But he is still primarily a shoemaker, and in the years 1843-1860, Edward Hopkins utilized Curtis’ services.94 In the years 1850-1851, wife Melissa, and children (by age) Catherine, Joseph, and Jerome were mentioned; in 1853-1854, Joseph, Jerome, and Sarah were mentioned; fi nally, 1856-1860 showed the same. In 1860 Joseph would have been about 27, Jerome about 25, and Sarah about 18.1

A new house,117 Figure 77, was built in 1862 on the for-mer Harris Hopkins’ property, where the authors believe Edward Hopkins was living in the 1860s or 1870s. Edward or his son Joseph H. Hopkins may have fi rst occupied this house.117 The barn shown to the left in Figure 77 is prob-ably the same as the one shown to the right in Figure 54 (Part 2A). If so, the old Harris Hopkins house would be just across the driveway from the new house.

Edward Hopkins died on April 25, 1876.14 The Timothy Hopkins14 genealogy had this to say of him: “In early life he was manufacturer of wooden clocks in Campville, Connecti-cut, but subsequently engaged in farming upon the home-stead of his grandfather in Litchfi eld. He was greatly respect-ed and held many town offi ces and left a large property.”

Augustus Alfred after ClockmakingNow look at deed 9 of Table 9. The grantee is Augus-

tus Alfred. The grantors can be recognized as all of the living brothers and sisters of Augustus, plus husbands of the sisters if married. Married women at the time could not own land independently from their spouses. (See the genealogical material early in Part 2A.) Reading the deed, the land is a 9½ acre piece in western Harwinton, one of the bounds of which is “East on undivided land be-longing to the heirs of Job Alfred deceased”. The deed is dated 1842. Augustus’ father was Job [III] Alfred, who died in 1839. Very likely there is an earlier deed in which Job deeded this land to all of his living children and the spouses of the married daughters. In this deed, those parties are choosing money ($188.71 total) rather than a smallish piece of land.

Lloyd Shanley41 wrote the authors in 2001, stating, “Within Harwinton’s Hungerford Memorial Library/Mu-seum is a unique hand written note book that is labeled Statistics of the Town of Harwinton for the year ending October 1st 1845.118 It is done in the style of a tax abstract in that it lists each head of household, the number of per-sons therein, and the value and quantities of each prod-uct produced by those living within each home of the property owner listed – from hats manufactured, to bush-els of corn, oats, barley harvested, to number of cords of wood cut.” Through the efforts of Lloyd, Mary Jane Dap-kus, and the Harwinton Historical Society, the authors have a nearly complete copy (hard to photocopy because of its peculiar size and shape). Extracting items of inter-est, one fi nds (consolidated): Augustus Alfred, 1 Machine shop, amount invested $3000, amount of product manu-factured $400. [This seems like a very small amount of money made from running the shop for a year.] Also, for broader interest: Nabby [Abigail – Augustus’ mother] Al-fred, 1000 clock glass painted, $50; Samuel Brown 10,000 clock faces painted $238; Garner Preston 48560 clock faces manufactured $728. The last three are further examples of what may be called “the great Harwinton dialmaking and dial decorating boom of the mid-1840s”. Lloyd apparently did not know the purpose of the handwritten note book, but Mary Jane, with a little help from the Harwinton His-torical Society, found out that every Town[ship] in Con-necticut had produced such a book, and with further con-solidation, these were published as Statistics of the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Industry in Connecticut, for the Year Ending October 1, 1845.119 The essence of the four Harwinton items above is preserved, but without names.

The 1850 Harwinton Census120 lists Augustus and his wife Edna, calling him a “machinist”, and evaluating the real estate at $4,000. Their oldest son Albert is listed as a “farmer”. Younger children, Jane L., Augustus B., Mary C., and Adeline, are listed. In 1860 Augustus is listed as “farmer” and no occupation is given for Albert. Real estate has dropped to $3,000.120 Evidence for the use of the old clock shop as a machine shop is fragmentary. A muzzle loading, percussion cap rifl e, signed, “A ALFRED

Figure 77. House built near Harris Hopkins’ old house (Figure 54) in 1862. Either Edward Hopkins or his son Joseph H. Hopkins could have lived in the house fi rst. We thank Julie Leone and the Litchfi eld Historical Society for this picture.WILLIAM E. DEVLIN PHOTO, COLLECTION OF THE LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY, LITCHFIELD, CT.



/ HARWINTON CT” was given to the Hungerford Memo-rial Library/Museum by Newton Lockwood.1 See Figure 78. Reference 121 states, “One of the lathes [made by Au-gustus Alfred at his machine shop] was presented to the Smithsonian Institution by the Union Hardware Com-pany of Torrington.”

Just as Edward Hopkins did, Augustus Alfred and his family utilized the services of shoemaker Curtis Sper-ry.94 Their fi rst appearance in the ledger is on May 29, 1849. In the fi rst block of entries, 1849-1852, one fi nds Albert, Jane, Augustus (probably Augustus B.), and Mary. (See the genealogies near the beginning of Part 2A.) A separate account for Albert was started in 1853. He was then about 22 years old,1 and the account continued un-til 1855. In 1853-1854 the other three continue. In the block 1854-1855, Adeline (now about age 51) fi rst appears, along with the other children Jane, Augustus, and Mary. In 1858-1860, only Mary and Adeline are mentioned for shoemaking. In the period 1862-1865, Augustus, Mary, and Adeline are again mentioned. On February 22, 1865, Augustus B. Alfred signed off and settled the account. Au-gustus [Sr.] had died a year before.

Augustus Alfred died January 12, 1864.1 The authors have part of the estate inventory, dated March 14, 1864. Se-lected inventory items are Farm and Buildings $5000.00; Livestock [17 animals, lumped together] 745.00; 1 Engine Lathe 50.00; 3 turning Lathes 50.00; 1 Machine for creas-ing Rifl es 25.00; total $6703.00. Approximately one third of the individual items of the list are missing.

The authors have a fragment of the Distribution of Au-gustus Alfred’s Estate, dated July 5, 1865. Written on the fragment at a later date is, “Note on second page [which authors do not have] that William N. Lockwood and Jane L. Lockwood are given the Clock [Machine] Shop.” The genealogical material given above in an early section of Part 2A shows that Jane Louisa Alfred, daughter of Au-gustus Alfred, married William Newton Lockwood on October 1, 1860.1 Since, at the time, Connecticut wom-en could not own real property independently of their husbands, William was automatically co-owner, and the shop became the Lockwood machine shop.

Figure 78. Muzzle loading percussion cap rifl e, signed “A ALFRED / HARWINTON CT” (not readable in photo), believed made by Augustus Alfred. See text.

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APPENDIX IHoplkins & Alfred Clock Shop or “The Lockwood Shop” (Facts and Memories)

by Lloyd T. Shanley, Jr., 12/10/00The farmhouse of my family was located in Harwinton,

near “Castle Bridge”, along the old Naugatuck Valley river road known as the “Thomaston-Torrington Road” or “Route #8”. About a mile and a half northerly up the valley along the old highway was the home of my very best friend Ralph, who lived in Campville’s center in the preserved large old brick house with the sign out front that read “Maple Grove Inn-1814.”

Ralph and I, as best of friends, grammar school class mates, and attendees of Harwinton’s District #7 Campville School dur-ing the mid 1930’s, often traveled on foot or by bicycle back and forth the mile and a half between our respective homes, to spend the night, do chores, go swimming, or investigate the world together.

About a thousand feet or so southerly of “Maple Grove Inn”, and a mile northerly of my home, was a large un-occupied and seemingly unused but well maintained old building standing close to the highway, that we knew as the “Lockwood Shop” and/or “The Hopkins & Alfred Clock Shop”. During a couple of our get-togethers, Ralph and I found a way to enter the old building through the basement, to “see what we could see”.

We were not out do damage, and did none. We were merely curious about what the building might contain. I now have only vague memories of some bins containing small wooden pieces that I came to believe were clock gears and other parts. I remember little else, other than an old contrivance with a big horn and cylindrical records therewith, that we believed was

an ancient phonograph. We tried to make it “play”, but had no luck.

As the years went by, we often traveled by the old building during our comings and goings, but gave little thought to the building. It was just there. Then some twenty years after our early investigation of the building’s interior, along came the fl ood of 1955. The building stood high and dry and safe from the fl ood waters, but not from the Corps of Army Engineers and its plans to build the “Thomaston Flood Control Dam” and create the great dry reservoir behind it.

All the homes, buildings, and people had to leave the valley. The roads, the railroad, and all the utilities were relocated or taken away. Although the homes in the center of Campville no longer remained, the Town of Harwinton prevailed upon the COE to allow the mile and a half section of the old Thomaston to Torrington Road that passed by the Hopkins & Alfred Mill (now named Valley Road), from Campville Hill Road southerly to Wildcat Hill Road, to remain open as a town highway.

Along about 1958, a crew of workmen carefully dismantled the one hundred and twenty fi ve year old mill. We were told that it was to be re-erected in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

A few years later, during a trip to Washington with my fam-ily, we went in search of the mill. What had fi nally happened to the bulk of the remains of the mill, I don’t know; but within the Smithsonian, my children and I found, as part of an indus-



trial exhibit, a small portion of the building with some work benches and equipment that was labeled as “an example of an early Harwinton, CT machine shop.”

With the opportunities we had as children, I do wish my

friend Ralph and I had had the “where with all” to have paid more attention and taken pictures of the insides of the old “Hopkins & Alfred Clock Shop”, where all those clocks with wooden internals had been made!

APPENDIX IIBryan Vernimb - Nancy L. Card Correspondence

Bryan Vernimb 10 Washington St.

Howell, N.J. 07731June 21, 2000Nancy L. CardRegistration ServicesNational Museum of Natural HistoryMRC 640Washington, DC 20560

Dear Nancy Card,Bob Fagnan [later became S. T., co-author] and myself are co-authoring an article for the Bulletin of the National Association of

Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC), on the subject of clockmaker Hopkins & Alfred of Harwinton, Conn.One of us (Fagnan) has already contacted William Cox, Associate Archivist at the Smithsonian. Mr. Cox sent the following:Artifacts from the Hopkins & Alfred Clock Company were donated to the Smithsonian September 29, 1959 by a Mr. and Mrs.

Lockwood. The material was accessioned into the collections of the Museum of History and Technology (now the National Mu-seum of American History) under accession number 226926.

Mr. Cox then provided your name and address. Sincerely, Bryan Vernimb

***Bryan Vernimb, through correspondence with Nancy L. Card, dated June 28, 2000, was given the following information as to

the disposition of the remains of the Hopkins & Alfred clock factory:(1). Selected material was used to build the “Bond Shop” exhibit completed in 1964. This depicted an example of an early

American machine shop.(2). The exhibit came down in 1998 to make room for the new On Time exhibit which opened last fall. The wood from the

exhibit was no longer needed so we gave it to the Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Association Museum in Easton, Maryland.(3). I believe we still have some wood from the original building still in storage on site, but most is now gone.Materials used to build the “Bond Shop” exhibit are as follows: 16 window sashes; 4 window frames; 1 door; 4 oak columns

(10" x 10" x 8.25' long); 1 oak column (10" x 10" x 11'3" long); 1 oak column (10" x 10" x 17' long); 1 oak column (10" x 10" x 13'4" long); 1 oak column (10" x 10" x 3'2" long); 110 linear feet 2" x 10" oak joists; 22.7 cubic feet of siding (clapboards); 153 sq. feet of fl ooring and ceiling; 33.75 cubic feet of old wood; 1 bucket of cut nails; wall section, with original plaster and two windows (10'6" W x 8'5" H); wall section, with original plaster and two windows (12'7" W x 7'7" H); (end of correspondence).

APPENDIX IIILetter from Chris H. Bailey

Genealogist, Curator (Retired), American Clock & Watch MuseumDec. 12, 2010

Bryan Vernimb10 Washington St.Howell, NJ 07731

Hello Bryan -

William Newton Lockwood and his wife Jane Louisa (Alfred) Lockwood acquired the Augustus Alfred machine shop upon Augustus’ death. They had a son Herbert Newton Lockwood, born December 10, 1863.

He was married June 4, 1890 to Bertha Adelle Doolittle, daughter of David and Sarah Ann (Baldwin) Doolittle. Bertha was born Apr. 13, 1869. Herbert and Bertha had six children born at New Britain, CT. One of them was Newton Leavenworth Lockwood, b. July 10, 1893. He died Dec. 18, 1978 in Minneapolis, MN.

Herbert Lockwood was an insurance and real estate agent and had his own offi ce in New Britain. He and Bertha were living in New Britain when the 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses were taken. Herbert N. Lockwood was still living in New Britain in 1953, but died before 1962.

Newton L. Lockwood was fi rst married by 1920 to Ethel H. ------ who was born about 1889 in CT. They had one son: Wendell H. Lockwood, b. Aug. 6, 1921. He lived at Salisbury, MD and died in Feb., 1975, age 53. Wendell was married and reportedly had two sons.



Newton L. Lockwood was an architect. I remember him having a lot of fi ne, early and valuable architecture books when I was at his home in Minneapolis. He also had at one time some fi ne clocks including some large E. Howard regulators and a huge col-lection of framed Bird’s Eye views of Connecticut towns. Sadly, many of these valuable clocks and Bird’s Eye views had been stored in a rented garage which was built into a hill, and had been severely damaged or ruined by dampness and mold. These items were sold some time later at a public auction. As an architect, I know that Lockwood had designed the Thompsonville fi re department building, 13 Pearl Street, Enfi eld, CT in 1939. While at his home I saw photos of the Harwinton, CT Congregational church building which I believe he may have designed after the previous one burned in the 1940’s or early 1950’s.

During his married life, Mr. Lockwood lived in a nice Federal Home on Main Street in Plainville, CT. He was quite a pack rat and among the items he collected were several tower clock movements which he had set up in a garage area adjoining his home. I understood from people who knew him at the time that he would go out periodically during the day and night and wind the clocks as he did not have long weight drops for them to run a week. After his wife, Ethel Lockwood, died, Nov. 30, 1961 at Plainville, age 72, Newton had some correspondence with a former lady friend who was still a spinster and by then lived at Minneapolis, MN. He ended up marrying her and moving all of his belongings to her house in Minneapolis. I recall his handsome home in Plain-ville. It was eventually taken over for an offi ce, I believe a lawyer’s offi ce. But it caught fi re about 1980 and was partially destroyed. It stood in that ruined state for some years and was fi nally demolished and a modern structure put on the corner lot.

Prior to his removal to Minneapolis, Mr. Lockwood had loaned AC&WM the re-maining clock parts from the H&A shop in November of 1964. These included hun-dreds of gears, pinions, steel hands, as well as some unused plates in oak and walnut. These are still in the museum collection. Ward Francillon at one time went through all of these parts and catalogued whether 8-day or 30-hour, time or striking or alarm parts. [See Figures 79, 80A, and 80B. Figure 79 used before.70] Mr. Lockwood had also loaned in 1964 the movement, pendulum, weight, one set (and a partial set) of hands from the two-dial street clock which Simon Willard had at his shop at Roxbury, MA. I know this clock was in the hands of James Conlin back in the early part of the 20th century, but somewhere along the way Lock-wood had acquired it. That clock is still running at AC&WM and has “Willard” engraved on the large pendulum bob.

Ward Francillon had been in contact with Newton Lockwood by 1974 and Lockwood had made a Xerox copy of a surviving Hopkins & Alfred account book53 for Francillon, who made a copy for AC&WM. Late in 1974 or early in 1975 I had some corre-spondence with Lockwood who offered to donate to the museum the account book and also several tower clocks still in his pos-session. On June 4, 1975 Mr. Lockwood signed a gift agreement for the loaned items mentioned above as well as four tower clocks. I later received a call from a Minneapolis lawyer stating that Mr. Lockwood had suffered a stroke and was then in a local nursing home. He sent the gift agreement which was signed and reportedly was found on the fl oor of the living room where Lockwood had taken ill. Lockwood was a widower by that time and the house was to be cleaned out and the lawyer requested that I make arrangements for the removal of the donated items. So a short time after I took a young fellow who worked for me at the museum and drove to Minneapolis where we spent a week going through the house and several out buildings searching for the account book and the parts to the tower clocks (which had never been re-assembled after the move to Minnesota).

In spite of a valiant effort we were unable to fi nd the original H&A account book.53 I visited Mr. Lockwood at the nursing home a couple of times during that week inquiring of its whereabouts, but his memory was foggy and he was unable to help. I was told that the son had taken some family portraits and momentos and may have taken the account book, but the son died in Feb.,

1975 before the father took ill and his widow and sons could not be located. Newton Lockwood lived three more years, dying December 18, 1978, age 85.

I have seen the remains of the H&A clock shop when it was erected at the Smithsonian. It was in no way recognizable as the clock shop, just a faux building constructed from the wood. The

Figure 79. Unused oak 8-d. alarm (later kind) plates, mostly empty, leaning on clock parts box, all from the Hopkins & Alfred clock shop.

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APPENDIX IVWaterbury, CT, Republican

Nov. 15, 1959

Authors’ Comments on Appendix IVThis newspaper article (facing page) seems full of errors. In the fi rst paragraph it says the clock shop lasted for 7 years, but in

fact it lasted over 10. In the second paragraph, the Smithsonian seems only to have planned and executed a faux machine shop room, not a clock shop.

The authors’ analysis of the surviving day book does not support that most clocks were sold to travelers on the turnpike. The 9th paragraph speaks of farming out tablet stenciling to the neighbors, but in fact the stencils in the Hungerford Library were used in the neighborhood about 5 years after the clock factory closed, when many clock tablets and faces were produced in Harwinton for the trade.

Snuff is not mentioned in the company day book. Some, but not most clocks were swapped for goods and services, but most went to regular clock dealers, the largest being in Philadelphia, PA.

We know that the old building was used as a machine shop by Augustus Alfred, probably until near his death in 1864. Then his Lockwood heirs utilized the shop. The fi rst of these was William Newton Lockwood.1 His fourth son was Franklin B. Lockwood, b. June 16, 1870.1 This could well be the Frank Lockwood of the article, and if so, he could well have taken over the shop from his father about 1892 when he would have been 22 years old.1 Franklin B. Lockwood was the uncle of Newton L. Lockwood, and the latter mentions that he acquired the day book and some boxes of clock parts when he visited “his uncle’s” shop about 1918 as a “young man”.87 The authors know nothing of the ownership or use of the shop after that, until Newton L. Lockwood bought it. After the great fl ood of 1955, Lockwood donated the building to the Smithsonian, but the interest of that institution was to build a faux machine shop, not a clock shop, which it did.

Figure 81. Incomplete wheel cutting engine from the Hopkins & Alfred clock shop, now on loan to the American Clock and watch Museum. Smithsonian Institution specimen, Negative No. 78-15119.

Smithsonian took the parts from the shop they wanted as well as two machines – neither of which they knew what they were. I identifi ed one machine as the main part of a wooden clock gear cutting engine (the moveable unit which held the wheels and had the indexing device is missing). [See Figure 81 and Reference 122.] I can’t remember what the other machine or device was, but I don’t recall it was clock related. We borrowed the gear cutting machine, though incomplete the only one known to exist from the Connecticut wooden gear shelf clock era, from the Smithsonian for our “Connecticut Clockmaking & The Industrial Revolution” exhibition at the AC&WM in 1997 and it is still on exhibit there.

Just as a sidelight, the property on which the Hopkins & Alfred clock shop stood, located along the Naugatuck River, was owned by Mr. Lockwood until his death. The property is in an area behind the Thomaston Dam (built after the great fl ood of 1955) and would be submerged should another fl ood transpire. Thus taxes were quite low since the property has little potential use and cannot be built upon. Apparently no taxes were paid by heirs after Mr. Lockwood’s death. At one time I had an interest in purchasing it as a wood lot; I did not. Some years later Wil-liam S. Kaminski, then of West Haven, CT and at the time an offi cer of AC&WM, purchased the property from the town of Harwinton for back taxes. He asked me about 10 years ago if the museum or I myself had any interest in the property, but we did not. He may still have owned the property, but Bill is now deceased, having lived 100 years.

I hope the above will be of some help.Cordially,Chris H. Bailey

AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Rodger Plaskett, the late Lloyd Shanley,

and the Harwinton Historical Society for photos, deeds, docu-ments, and genealogical information; Mark McEachern, Carol Clapp, and the Torington Historical Society for document cop-ies from the Hodges papers; Julie Leone and the Litchfi eld His-torical Society for photos and documentation of certain Hop-kins family houses, etc.; Chris Bailey; Mary Jane Dapkus of the American Clock and Watch Museum for copies of the Company Book, photos, and genealogical assistance; Nancy Card and the Smithsonian Institution for information on what was removed from the old Hopkins & Alfred shop building, how it was used, and how it was dispersed; and to the late Ward Francllon, Chris Brown, Don Bruno, Bill Bryan, William Devlin, Lindy Larson,

Bryan Rogers, Rebecca Rogers, Rolf Taylor, Timothy Taylor, and Don Weber, each of whom provided one or more photographs, whether they knew it or not.

NotesFrom Part 1A - Notes used again in Part 2B

1. Bryan Vernimb and Michael Vernimb, Genealogy of the Hop-kins Family and Related Persons (Unpublished: October 29, 2000; revised September 12, 2009, and March 10, 2011). Copies placed with the libraries of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Columbia, PA, and the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, CT.



2. Phillip T. Young, Asa Hopkins of Fluteville (Thesis, Yale School of Music, Yale University, April 1962).

14. Timothy Hopkins, John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (California: Stanford University Press, 1932).

18. Kenneth D. Roberts and Snowden Taylor, Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock, 2nd Ed. (Fitzwilliam, NH: Ken Rob-erts Publishing Co., 1994).

35. Kenneth D. Roberts, The Contri-butions of Joseph Ives to Connecticut Clock Technology 1810-1862, 2nd Ed. (Fitzwil-liam, NH: Ken Roberts Publishing Co., 1988).

41. Lloyd T. Shanley, Jr., of Harwin-ton, direct descendant of Thomas Shan-ley who took over Asa’s old “river shop” from Garner Curtiss, helped the authors in many ways. See the Acknowledgments section in Part 1A.

From Part 1B -Notes used again in Part 2B

53. Company Book of Hopkins & Al-fred, 1834-1842.

70. Theodore B. Hodges, Erastus Hodges 1781-1847 (West Kennebunk, ME: Phoenix Publishing, 1994).

71. Snowden Taylor, “Characteristics of Standard Terry-Type 30-Hour Wooden Movements as a Guide to Identifi cation of Movement Makers,” NAWCC Bulletin, No. 208, Part I (October 1980).

73. U.S. Census, 1850, Litchfi eld.

From Part 2A - Notes used again in Part 2B

79. Bryan Rogers and Snowden Taylor, Eight Day Wood Movement Shelf Clocks – Their Cases, Their Movements, Their Mak-ers (NAWCC Bulletin Supplement No. 19, Spring 1993).

80. Ward Francillon, “Some Wood Movement Alarms,” NAWCC Bulletin, No. 148 (October 1970): pp. 575-612.

82. Research fi les of Snowden Taylor.84. Snowden Taylor, Cog Counters Jour-

nal, No. 2 (May 1974): pp. 11-12.87. Newton Lockwood (not signed),

“Hopkins & Alfred, Clock Makers,” fi f-teen pages type script and script, ca. early 1970s, with cover page by Ward Francil-lon, 1986.

90. Mary Jane Dapkus, “Research Ac-tivities and News,” NAWCC Bulletin, No. 392 (June 2011): pp. 353-354.

94. Curtis Sperry’s Account Book, Har-winton Historical Society, Harwinton, CT; for Cynthia Alfred, see unnumbered pages in back of book dated 1856, when she would have been 56 years old and still unmarried; for Garner Preston see pages 132, 140; for Anson Johnson see



pp. 23, 35, 189; for Edward Hopkins see pp. 112, 114, 178, 183-184, 190; for Augustus Alfred shoe work, see pp. 152-153, 177, 181, 185-186, 192, 203.

101. Snowden Taylor, The Clocks of Mark Leavenworth (Fitz-william, NH: Ken Roberts Publishing Co., 1987): pp. 53, 58-59.

102. The house is recorded as IF#15 by the State of Connecti-cut, Connecticut Historical Commission, Historic Resources Inventory, Buildings and Structures, and a copy was kindly provided to the authors by the Litchfi eld Historical Society. Within the section “Signifi cance,” the following statements oc-cur: “The house was originally built as a one-and-one-half story Cape for Harris Hopkins [grandfather of Edward Hopkins] in 1764.” and “Harris son Joseph … and Joseph’s son Edward … also occupied the house.”

Part 2B111. Todd Williams, Cog Counters Journal, No. 25 (Spring

2001): pp. 75-76.112. Hiram Camp, “Sketch of the Clock Making Business –

March 1893,” Timepiece Journal, Vol. 8/7, p. 146.113. Kenneth D. Roberts and Snowden Taylor, Forestville

Clockmakers (Fitzwilliam, NH: Ken Roberts Publishing Co., 1992): p. 161.

114. G. Russell Oechsle, Helen Boyce and Collaborators, An Empire in Time (Columbia, PA: National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, 2003).

115. Snowden Taylor, “A Day Book, 1843 [sic-1842] – 1846, Probably Belonging to Jerome, Grant and Company,” Timepiece Journal 1/5 (Summer 1977): p. 79, Reference 11; also, reprint of same with some corrections, NAWCC Bulletin, No. 197 (Decem-ber 1978): pp. 632-633, 639 Reference 11.

116. U.S. Census, 1840, Litchfi eld.117. The house, IF#14, was recorded in the same way as

IF#15, cited in Reference 102, and a copy was also kindly pro-vided to the authors by the Litchfi eld Historical Society. Within the section “Signifi cance,” the following appears: “This house was built in 1862 for Edward Hopkins … who also owned the Harris Hopkins House [Figure 54 and Reference 102] to which this house is a near neighbor. The house must be considered as part of a family complex; it originally had no kitchen so that family members dined in the older house. The actual builder

may have been Edward’s son Joseph H. Hopkins, a stone mason and later the owner of this prosperous farm … It is uncertain whether father or son fi rst occupied the house.”

118. “Statistics of the Town of Harwinton for the Year Ending October 1st 1845,” manuscript, Harwinton Historical Society.

119. Daniel P. Tyler, Statistics of the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Industry in Connecticut, for the Year Ending Oc-tober 1, 1845 (Hartford, CT: John L. Boswell, State Printer, 1846).

120. U.S. Census, 1850 and 1860, Harwinton.121. Raymond G. Bentley, History of Harwinton (Winsted, CT:

Dowd Printing, 1970): p. 112.122. Donald Robert Hoke, “Ingenious Yankees, the Rise of

the American System of Manufacturers in the Private Sector,” Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy (University of Wisconsin – Madi-son, 1984): Chapter 2, pp. 66, 77, 79-83.

About the AuthorsBryan Vernimb is a retired nurseryman who lives in Howell,

NJ. He joined the NAWCC about 1992 because of his interest in the repair and restoration of clocks. Bryan’s fi rst article for the NAWCC Bulletin, “Mark Lane: Clockmaker of Southington, Connecticut, and Elizabethtown, New Jersey” (April 1999, No. 319) led directly to the present series of articles on the Hop-kins family of clockmakers (a work in progress for more than a decade). Although Bryan’s active membership in the NAWCC ended about 2003, he and Dr. Taylor continued to work togeth-er to fi nish the present articles. Bryan’s email addres is [email protected].

Snowden Taylor has been chair of the NAWCC Research Committee for over 30 years, 1981-2011. In addition to writing and editing the Research Activities and News column in the Watch & Clock Bulletin every issue, he has published articles in the Watch & Clock Bulletin and the American Clock and Watch Museum Timepiece Journal. His primary interest is weight shelf clock movement identifi cation, history, and analysis. His lec-tures on clock movements, clockmakers Joseph Ives and Noble Jerome, and other topics are available in DVD or VCR format through the Library and Research Center, as are books he au-thored or coauthored with Kenneth D. Roberts. He worked as a physicist, teacher, and research scientist.

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You asked about collectingAnd history

Seemingly right enoughI regaled

About Gallet the oldestPatek the best

Marie-AntoinetteAnd Breguet's complications

But nothing about rummage sale Finds for a song

There on my morning shelfWinding them slowly

Listening for the pulse

© Raymond Comeau, November 2013. Ray Comeau is aformer dean and current lecturer in French and management in Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education. As a poet he is fascinated by time and its relationship to life, death, and human emotions. He enjoys his affi liation with NAWCC and attends regional meetings often.


Documents

© 2014 National Association of Watch and Clock … NAWCCWatch & Clock Bulletin • March/April 2014 171 Clocks and Movements Introductory It is appropriate to now look at the information