Hotchkiss and Pierpont, of Plymouth, had been selling that kind of a clock without the cases, in the northern part of that State, for about twenty dollars, apiece.

The purchasers, had complained to them however, that there was no one in that region that could make the case for them, which prevented many others from buying.

These two men whom I went with, told them that they would get some one to go out from Connecticut, to make the case, and thought they could be made for about eighteen or twenty dollars apiece, which would then make the whole clock cost about forty dollars--not so very costly after all; for a clock was then considered the most useful of anything that could be had in a family, for what it cost.

I entered into an agreement with these men at once, and a few days after, we three started on the 14th Dec., 1812, in an old lumber wagon, with provisions for the journey, to the far off Jersey.

This same trip can now be made in a few hours.