The roads were very muddy, and we were obliged to walk the whole distance home by the side of the wagon.

I worked along in this small way until the year 1821, when I sold my house and lot, which I had almost worshipped, to Mr.Terry; it was worth six hundred dollars.

He paid me one hundred wood clock movements, with the dials, tablets, glass and weights.

I went over to Bristol to see a man by the name of George Mitchell, who owned a large two story house, with a barn and seventeen acres of good land in the southern part of the town, which he said he would sell and take his pay in clocks.

I asked him how many of the Terry Patent Clocks he would sell it for; he said two hundred and fourteen.