Nathaniel Hazeltine of Danville, Vermont.

Nathaniel Hazeltine was born in Fryeburg, Maine, on June 30, 1784. His parents were Barnes and Sarah (Webster) Hazeltine. Nathaniel had a brother, Enoch (b Jan. 29.1788 – d. February 1, 1873, in New Bedford, MA.) The family moved to Danville, Vermont, between 1803 and 1808. An article in the Friday, June 2, 1876 issue of a Danville newspaper, The North Star, states that “Samuel Parker was engaged in making large Brass clocks; Nath'l Hazeltine was engaged at watchwork” in the years 1807-8-9 in Danville. Enoch became a cabinetmaker, an ardent anti-Mason, a temperance man, and an original abolitionist. Daniel married Caroline Moore in Danville on November 19, 1811; she died between July 3, 1818, and December 5, 1819. Daniel remarried to Miriam Hoyt on December 5, 1819. Nathaniel Hazeltine is shown as a clockmaker in the 1850 Danville census. A brief reference can be found in Vermont Clock and Watchmakers Silversmiths and Jewelers 1778 - 1878, written by Lillian Baker Carlisle, which lists him as working in 1856. A reference from Walton’s Register in 1856 and until 1858 lists him as a “manufacturer of watches and jewelry.” As luck would have it, Eaton’s Auction Service in Vermont recently discovered and sold a watch paper on 10/18/2008. The paper reads, “Nathl Hazeltine Clock, Watch, Maker. Danville, Vermont.” On the back, it is dated “1816, May 31. M??? Waddock (sp?) 1817 February, 23.” In 1870, Daniel was boarding in the Danville household of the Canadian-born farmer Alexander Russello, where Martha Hazeltine worked as a housekeeper. Nathaniel Hazeltine died in Danville on April 7, 1871.