hard myself and managed in the most economical manner possible.  In 1825, we built a small factory on the stream below the shop where I sawed my veneers two or three years before, but there was no road to it or bridge across the stream.  I had crossed it for years on a pole, running the risk many times when the water was high, of being drowned, but it seems I was not to die in that way, but to live to help others and make a slave of myself for them.  In 1826, we petitioned the town to lay out a road by our factory and build a bridge, which was seriously objected to.  We finally told them that if they would lay out the road, we would build the bridge and pay for one half of the land for the road, which, after a great deal of trouble, was agreed to, and proved to be of great benefit to the town.  Our business was growing very rapidly and a number of houses were built up along the new road and about our factory.  I should here mention that Mr. Eli Terry, Jr., when I had got the Bronze Looking-Glass Clock well a going, moved from Plymouth Hollow two miles east of Plymouth Centre, (now the village of Terryville,) where he built another factory and went into business.  His father retiring about this time, he took all of his old customers.  He was a good business man and made money very fast.  He was taken sick and died when about forty years old, leaving an estate of about $75,000.  His brother, Silas B. Terry, is now living, a Christian gentleman, as well as a scientific clock-maker, but he has not succeeded so well as his brother in making money.  Henry Terry of Plymouth, who is another son of Mr. Eli Terry, was engaged in the clock business thirty years ago, but left it for the woolen business.  I think that he is sorry that he did not continue making clocks.  He is a man of great intelligence and understands the principles of a right tariff as well as any man in Connecticut.  His father was a great man, a natural philosopher, and almost an Eli Whitney in mechanical ingenuity.  If he had turned his mind towards a military profession, he would have made another General Scott, or towards politics, another Jefferson; or, if he had not happened to have gone to the town of Plymouth, I do not believe there would ever have been a clock made there.  He was the great originator of wood clock-making by machinery in Connecticut.  I like to see every man have his due.  Thomas and many others who have made their fortunes out of his ingenuity, were very willing to talk against him, for they must, of course, act out human nature.  Seth Thomas was in many respects a first-rate man.  He never made any improvements in manufacturing; his great success was in money making.  He always minded his own business, was very industrious, persevering, honest, his word was as good as his note, and he always determined to make a good article and please his customers.  He had several sons who are said to be smart business men.