Mr. Terry would make two or three trips a year to the New Country, as it was then called, just across the North River, taking with him three or four clocks, which he would sell for about twenty-five dollars apiece.  This was for the movement only.  In 1807 he bought an old mill in the southern part of the town, and fitted it up to make his clocks by machinery.  About this time a number of men in Waterbury associated themselves together, and made a large contract with him, they furnishing the stock, and he making the movements.  With this contract and what he made and sold to other parties, he accumulated quite a little fortune for those times.  The first five hundred clocks ever made by machinery in the country were started at one time by Mr. Terry at this old mill in 1808, a larger number than had ever been begun at one time in the world.  Previous to this time the wheels and teeth had been cut out by hand; first marked out with square and compasses, and then sawed with a fine saw, a very slow and tedious process.  Capt.  Riley Blakeslee, of this city, lived with Mr. Terry at that time, and worked on this lot of clocks, cutting the teeth.  Talking with Capt.  Blakeslee a few days since, he related an incident which happened when he was a boy, sixty years ago, and lived on a farm in Litchfield.  One day Mr. Terry came to the house where he lived to sell a clock.  The man with whom young Blakeslee lived, left him to plow in the field and went to the house to make a bargain for it, which he did, paying Mr. Terry in salt pork, a part of which he carried home in his saddle-bags where he had carried the clock.  He was at that time very poor, but twenty-five years after was worth $200,000, all of which he made in the clock business.

Mr. Terry sold out his business to Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley, two of his leading workmen, in 1810.  This establishment was the leading one for several years, but other ones springing up in the vicinity, the competition became so great that the prices were reduced from ten to five dollars apiece for the bare movement.  Daniel Clark, Zenas Cook and Wm. Porter, started clock-making at Waterbury, and carried it on largely for several years, but finally failed and went out of the business.

Col.  Wm. Leavenworth, of the same place, was in the business in 1810, but failed, and moved to Albany, N.Y.  A man by the name of Mark Leavenworth made clocks for a long time, and in the latter part of his life manufactured the Patent Shelf Clock.

Two brothers, James and Lemuel Harrison, made a few before the year 1800, using no machinery, making their wheels with a saw and knife.  Sixty years ago, a man by the name of Gideon Roberts got up a few in the old way:  he was an excellent mechanic and made a good article.  He would finish three or four at a time and take them to New York State to sell.  I have seen him many times, when I was a small boy, pass my father’s house on horseback with a clock in each side of his saddle-bags, and a third lashed