Clock Makers

David Wood was born the son of John Wood (1727-1805) and Eunice (Fellows) Wood (1737-1801) in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on July 5, 1766. It is thought that he may have been apprenticed to either Daniel Balch Senior or to one of the members Mulliken family. All of whom were prominent Clockmakers… 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