Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst2311964unit (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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In Account with Captain Thomas Godfrey: 1774, April 7: For 1 Telescope iO.8.0. Other documents in the same collection indicate that Greenough's business interests were substantial and not limited merely to the construction of instruments. On July 31, 1769, Greenough's name appeared on the Boston Citizens' Non-Importation Agreement. Subsequently, on December 14, 1774, there is Greenough's signed receipt, with the amount left blank, stating that he had "REC'D. of Capt. Thomas Godfrey the Sum of in full for my Negro man CufFes Shair in the Whaling Voige ." Greenough apparently was succeeded in business by his son William Greenough, Mr. Lawrence B. Romaine of Middleboro, Massachusetts, in 1939 described a wooden surveying compass with its own hand-whittled tripod made of oak which bore a compass card inscribed "Made by William Greenough, Boston,
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Figure 42.—Brass surveying compass made by Thomas Greenough (1710-1785) of Boston. Compass face is mounted on main blade with two copper rivets. Screws for vanes and tripod mounting are hand cut, with wing nut ends. Sight- ing bars are He in. wide and Syi in. high; over-all length is 11% in. and diameter is 5H in. Owned by Greenough family of Boston. Photo courtesy of Dr. Thomas Greenough. 88

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