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From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2012 Feb 29, 18:18 -0800
While researching the accounting records of Amos Evans, the Navy
Purchase agent in Boston in 1812, I came across a listing for a chronometer
provided to Captain Bainbridge of the Constitution. Purchased from
Stephen Dutch, No. 317 (?)utton, London, $400.
The first letter looks somewhat like an N, but 'Nutton' doesn't seem likely. There was a Mudge &
Dutton in London at about this time, but the initial letter does not look like a 'D'.
Can anyone provide any insight on who the manufacturer might have been?
Don Seltzer
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