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Stretch: America’s First Family of Clockmakers

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This volume presents the definitive history of the United Kingdom-born Stretch circle of relatives of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role within the city’s early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the circle of relatives and the significance in their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic and cultural contributions to the city.

The catalog part of the book features 84 of the 133 Peter, Thomas, and William Stretch clocks found out all through the course of the project, illustrating and fully describing both the cases and the works. Nearly all of the clocks, passed down in the course of the generations and still in private collections, are being published for the first time.

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