KF 17
  Tall Case Clock
 Origin:  Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Thomas Jackson
 Date:  ca. 1755
 Size:  6' 8" in high x 16" in wide
 Acquisition:  1952

The maker of the piece was Thomas Jackson, born in England around 1733.  He had migrated to the colonials by the mid-18th century and died in 1806. Jackson is said to have completed projects in Maine, Boston, and Connecticut. The clock itself bears Johnson's name.  It has a six inch breakarch dial with a flat-top hood.  It has also a paneled front door and block base.