The Seth Thomas Clock Company was organized as a joint stock corporation on to succeed the earlier clockmaking operation of the founder. Seth Thomas home purchased in 1838, now a museum In 1842, brass movements were introduced, and first cased in the popular O.G. These were cased in pillar and scroll cases until 1830, when the bronze looking glass and other styles became popular. Thomas continued Clark’s wooden movement tall clock production, and about 1817 began making the wooden movement shelf clock. The land included a clock factory and was conveniently located near Eli Terry's new shop (where was the non-compete agreement?). On December 4, 1813, Seth Thomas sold out his share of the company to Hoadley for $2,000, and went into business on his own in Plymouth Hollow on land he purchased from a former apprentice of Eli Terry. In 1810, Thomas and Hoadley, for $6,000, bought out Terry's share of the company, by then the most successful clockmaking firm in the country, and worked together until 1812. These clocks did not have cases, but buyers who wanted cases for their clocks hired carpenters to build what they called "grandfather cases" for them. From 1807 until 1810, they made 4000 clocks of the "hang-up" or "wag-on-the wall" type. Seth mainly worked on fitting the wheels and different clock parts together. There he joined Eli Terry and Silas Hoadley in a business of making clocks at a wholesale rate. As a result, the town of Wolcott profited to some extent from the Thomas enterprise, the short time it was located in Wolcott. The women of the town spun flax (cotton) into cords and these were used to hold the clock weights. The woods around the house were filled with mountain laurel trees many Wolcott men worked cutting the trees and sawing them into thin slices, which, when seasoned, were used for the wooden wheels of the clocks. He made his first clock in his family's house. In the early 1800s, Seth attempted to set up a clock-making industry in Wolcott. Subsequently, he became a skilled woodworker and built houses and barns in the nearby towns around Farmingbury/Wolcott (incorporated 1796). Seth was apparently a man of few words with great energy and perseverance in all that he did thus, he paid strong attention to the duties of this apprenticeship. He had imited formal education and left school at an early age to become an apprentice carpenter and joiner to Daniel Tuttle, of Plymouth. Seth had a natural ability for carpentry and he probably obtained his knowledge and interest in mill property and manufacturing from this. He was born in this house and lived there until about 1810. (photo above c.1984 - link to c.2005 photo) Seth Thomas Childhood Home, 36 Peterson Ln Connecticut, incidentally, was an important and expanding hub in the American clockmaking trade. Seth Thomas was born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1785, the fifth of seven children of Scottish immigrant, James Thomas, a cooper, and his wife Maria Ward.
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