Benjamin Morrill of Boscawen, New Hampshire, holds patent no. 3,111 for an improvement to balances for weighing, issued May 26, 1843. He is more well known as a maker of various types of clocks, including mirror clocks, tall case clocks, banjo clocks, and shelf clocks. He also made at least four tower clocks, or towers with a clock on all four sides visible to the inhabitants of the town.

[1]New Hampshire, Registrar of Vital Statistics, [New Hampshire] Index to births, early to 1900 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974).

[2]1850 US Census , Boscawen NH, p. 272.

[3]Norton R. Bagley and Michael O. Vacca, Deaths in the Town of Boscawen, N.H. 1755-1864 (Concord, NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1998).

[4]Date inferred from age at death.

[5]New-Hampshire Statesman and Concord Register (Concord, NH), July 26, 1828.

[6]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1].

[7]Norton R. Bagley and Michael O. Vacca, Deaths in the Town of Boscawen, N.H. 1755-1864 (Concord, NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1998).

[8]N.H. Index to births, electronic library [note 1].

[9]Norton R. Bagley and Michael O. Vacca, Deaths in the Town of Boscawen, N.H. 1755-1864 (Concord, NH: Typewritten manuscript at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1998).