Whittier Perkins working in Wendell now Sunapee, New Hampshire.

Whittier Perkins was born the son of Captain Icabod and Sara (Whittier) Perkins on April 7, 1764. He was born in Methuen, Massachusetts. He was the first cousin of Robinson Perkins, a clockmaker working in Jaffrey, NH, and was trained in the Ashby, Massachusetts School of Clockmaking. Whittier’s clock movements share many of the Ashby construction characteristics. They differ slightly. Please read American Wooden Movement Tall Clocks 1712 – 1835, written by Philip Morris, for a more in-depth discussion about construction variations. It is now thought that Whittier moved to Wendell, NH, with his Father, Icabod, in 1790. He and his family are listed in the 1790 census. They built a house there on a hill that still stands today. Whittier served as a selectman in that town in 1797. Whittier died in Wendell on August 16, 1813. The town name of Wendell no longer exists. Its name was changed in 1850 to Sunapee. It was named after the lake and the mountain. Very few clocks are known by this maker.