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"Peregrine White was born in Woodstock, Connecticut in 1747 and died there in 1834. He was a namesake and direct descendent of the first white child born in Cape Cod Harbor in 1620. He was a silversmith and clockmaker, also a maker of surveyor's compasses." Reference: Smart, Charles E. The Makers Of Surveying Instruments In America Since 1700 Troy, New York: Regal Art Press. 1962Instrument shown is from the collection of the National Museum of American History, a division of the Smithsonian Institution
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