Clock Makers
Frederick Wingate was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on January 11, 1782, and died in Augusta, Maine, on November 16, 1864. His parents were William Wingate (1745-1821) and Mehitable (Bradley) Wingate (1747-1796). His older brother, Paine Wingate (1767-1833), worked as a clockmaker in Boston… read more
Paine Wingate was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1767. His parents were William Wingate (1745-1821) and Mehitable Bradley (1747-1796). He had a younger brother, Frederick Wingate (1782-1862), who he may have trained. Frederick becomes one of Maine's most prolific clockmakers.… read more
David Wood was born to John Wood (1727–1805) and Eunice (Fellows) Wood (1737–1801) in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on July 5, 1766, during a period of burgeoning craftsmanship in early America. He likely apprenticed under either Daniel Balch Senior or a member of the Mulliken family—both… read more
Josiah Wood of New Bedford, Massachusetts. A gunsmith, Clockmaker, watchmaker, goldsmith, silversmith and jeweler.
Josiah Wood was born in New Bedford on February 21, 1774. Currently, his parents are not known. Josiah was first recorded as a “Dartmouth Gunsmith” when he sold five acres of land in… read more
Robert Wood, James S., and Jacob S. Taylor were cabinetmakers who first worked independently in New York City from 1808 to 1810. In 1810, they both fled the city during a smallpox epidemic. It is recorded that in 1810, they settled in the small village of Florida, New York, in Orange County,… read more
The clockmakers John Wood Sr., Peter Stretch, and Joseph Wills are considered the three most significant Pennsylvania clockmakers of the first half of the 1700s. For John Wood, no birth dates are currently known. We know he was at work as early as 1729 and died in 1760-61. John Wood Sr.… read more
David Young was a cabinetmaker who worked in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. He is known to have made clock cases for several clockmakers, including Levi & Able Hutchins, Timothy Chandler, and Edmund Currier. Some of these cases can be positively identified. Young often pasted a label inside the… read more