Movement by John Jeffray
Glasgow, Scotland, 1760-1770
Mahogany with deal
Gift of Mary Cary Nicholas Phelps, Jaquelin Ambler Nicholas Harvey, Edley Craighill Nicholas Stone, Norvell Templeman Nicholas Carrington, and Harrison Trent Nicholas, Jr., in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Trent Nicholas
Catalog no. 165
Despite a brisk colonial clockmaking trade in Fredericksburg, Virginia, clocks were often imported to the Chesapeake from Great Britain. Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of the colony, brought this example to Williamsburg in 1772. That the clock was produced in Scotland is not surprising in view of Dunmore's Scottish birth. Some Chesapeake planters also ordered furniture from Scottish ports, where good prices were paid for Maryland and Virginia tobacco.