Tall case clock

According to the handwritten label inside the case, this clock was purchased by Albert Zabriskie for $65 in 1810. Albert C. Zabriskie (1755-1840) appears to have been the most likely owner, as he lived Hackensack, New Jersey, the same town named on the dial of the clock. When he died in 1840 he left his "Eight-day Clock," valued at $20, to his son Christian. The clockmaker William Dawes was a silversmith and clockmaker who lived in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey. His wife, Sarah Miller, was the granddaughter of the Elizabethtown clockmaker Aaron Miller. In 1804 Dawes advertised in the JERSEY JOURNAL, "GOLD AND SILVERSMITHS. The subscribers take this method of informing the Public that they have entered into a line of their profession under the firm of Dawes and Woodruff in Elizabeth Town...where they carry on the different branches of CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKING and SILVER PLATING on the most accomodating terms..." The inclusion of "Hackensack" on Dawes' dial may be indicative of a retail trade rather than a shop location. Learn more at the link below.