Mulliken, Nathaniel (II) of Lexington, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel Jr or II was a member of a very important family of American clockmakers. He was born on March 30, 1752. His parents were Nathaniel Mulliken I (b. 1722 – d. 1767) and Lydia Stone. Lydia was the daughter of Deacon John Stone of Lexington. Nathaniel was one of seven children and learned the art of clockmaking from his father, Nathaniel I. After his father died in 1767, he, his mother, and Benjamin Willard maintained the family business in Lexington. That is until the shop, and the house were burned to the ground on April 17, 1775. The property was looted and then burned by the British troops while returning to Boston from Concord. The British had planned to march 800 men to Concord to confiscate the arms and munitions stored there. They also hoped to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock, who stayed in Reverend Clarke's Home in Lexington. As it turns out, the arms and munitions were moved before the British arrived. Captain Parker and his assembled men confronted them. Nathaniel Jr. was under Captain Parker's command. They confronted the British that afternoon, and the rest of the story is well known. As the British soldiers retreated to Boston, Parker's men and many others actively pursued them, shooting at them from the woods and behind obstacles. A signed Mulliken musical movement designed to play lively tunes during the week and a Psalm tune on Sunday was reportedly found in the knapsack of a wounded British soldier lying on the Boston Road in Malden or Medford. Nathaniel Jr. died the following winter at 24 of camp fever. 

Very few Clockmakers lived and worked in the states during this early period of American clockmaking. As a result, pre-Revolutionary clocks made in this country are rare, and very few exist. The majority of clocks that would have been available during this early period would have been from English sources.