[Bell Historians] Early US bellfounding

[bill at hibberts.co.uk]

I have been doing some work on the bells of Paul Revere and his
successors, in particular collecting and analysing recordings, as you
do.

 

In Neil Goeppinger's book Large Bells of America, he says on page 5,
concerning Revere's entry into the bell trade:

The nearest foundry casting church bells at the time was at Abington,
Massachusetts, where Colonel Aaron Hobart had hired a British Navy
deserter named Gillimore who had worked in an English bellfoundry. . .
[Revere] sent his son Joseph to England to learn bell-casting . . .
Joseph bought a bell by John Warner of London to use as a model.
Later, in 1795, Revere sold the Warner bell to the North
Congregational Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

 

Does anyone know of Gillimore, the deserter and bellfounder, and where
he might have worked in the UK?

 

Regards,

 

Bill H

 

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