Chauncey and Noble Jerome started a factory in Richmond Va., making the cases and parts at Bristol, Connecticut, and packing them with the dials, glass &c.

We shipped them to Richmond and took along workmen to put them together.

The people were highly pleased with the idea of having clocks all made in their State.

The old planters would tell the pedlars they meant to go to Richmond and see the wonderful machinery there must be to produce such articles and would no doubt have thought the tools we had there were sufficient to make a clock.

We carried on this kind of business for two or three years and did very well at it, though it was unpleasant.