This successful state of things set all of the wood clock makers half crazy, and they went into it one after another as fast as they could, and of course run down the price very fast--"Yankee-like." I had been thinking for two or three years of introducing my clocks into England, and had availed myself of every opportunity to get posted on that subject; when I met Englishmen in New York and other places, I would try to find out by them what the prospects would be for selling Yankee clocks in their country.

I ascertained that there were no cheap metal clocks used or known there, the only cheap timepiece they had was a Dutch hang-up wood clock.
In 1842, I determined to make the venture of sending a consignment of brass clocks to Old England.

I made a bargain with Epaphroditus Peck, a very talented young man of Bristol, a son of Hon.

Tracy Peck, to take them out, and sent my son--Chauncey Jerome, Jr.

with him.