Chandler, Timothy (1762-1848)

Name:

Chandler, Timothy (1762-1848)

Title:

1779 - Continental Soldier
1808 - Surveyor of Highways, Concord, NH
1812-1814 - Volunteer for Home Defense
1819 - Chairman of first "Lancastrian School"
1825 - One of 9 Directors in charter for N.H. Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
1827 - Chairman that organized the Unitarian Society,
1830 - President of Concord's first Temperance Society; Vice President of Concord Mechanics Association; One of 17 original trustees of N.H. Savings Bank
1834 - One of 3 to name streets
1836 - One of 17 delegates to consider hospital for the insane

Born:

04/25/1762

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

08/09/1848

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Concord, NH (1762-?, 1783-1848)
Woodstock, CT (before 1783) where he probably learned clockmaking from Peregrine White

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Cardmaker and goldsmith pre-1783
Clockmaker 1783-1829
Silversmith

Father:

Chandler, Timothy (1733-1770)

Mother:

Copp, Elizabeth (c.1737-)

Relations:

Sibling: Capt. Abiel Chandler (1765-1854; farmer; m. Abigail Thomas; res. Bristol and Sanbornton, NH; 9 children)
Timothy Chandler & Son 1824-29
A. Chandler & Co. 1829-30

Spouse:

Sarah Abbot (1769-1857)

Children:

Peregrine White (1788-1792)
Sarah (1791-; m. Abel Blanchard Eastman)
Peregrine Hale White (1793-1828)
Judith (1796-1851; unmarried)
Timothy Jay, born 1798; died 1873; unmarried)
Isaac Abbot (1801-1819)
John Bradley (1805-; m. Maria French)
Abiel (1807-1881; m. Maria Lamson Felt; gold & silver smith, clockmaker, et al; res. Concord, NH)
Seneca (1809-1810)
Elizabeth (1812-1844)

Notes:

George Chandler. The Chandler Family. The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler Who Settled in Roxbury, Mass. 1637. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Charles Hamilton, 1883), 592-593.

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver. With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1958), 179.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 89.

Luther S. Spangler, "Major Timothy Chandler Clock Manufacturer of Concord, N.H.," Timepieces Quarterly, Feb 1949, 99-101.

Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825. An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Villagae Collection. (Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1992), 98-101, 116, 163, 169.

Concord Directories, 1830-1844.

Second Congregational Church Records, Concord, NH, February 25, 1829.

Dissolution of Partnership Notice, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, NH, December 13, 1830, 4.

Death Notice, New Hampshire Statesmen, Concord, New Hampshire, August 11, 1848.