The business of selling greatly increased in New York, and within three or four years after I introduced the one day brass clock, several companies in Bristol and Plymouth commenced making them.

Most of them manufactured an inferior article of movement, but found sale for great numbers of them to parties that were casing clocks in New York.

This way of managing proved to be a great damage to the Connecticut clock makers.

The New York men would buy the very poorest movements and put them into cheap O.G.cases and undersell us.

Merchants from the country, about this time, began to buy clocks with their other goods.