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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1777 - 1861 (83 years)
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| Name |
Nathaniel Munroe |
| Born |
21 Jun 1777 |
Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
8 May 1861 |
Baltimore, Baltimore (city), Maryland, USA |
| Person ID |
I7875 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
27 May 2001 |
| Father |
Daniel Munroe, b. Abt 1744, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA , d. 23 Jul 1827, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, USA (Age ~ 83 years) |
| Mother |
Abigail Parker, b. 30 Jan 1753, Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1 May 1844, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA (Age 91 years) |
| Married |
15 Sep 1774 |
| Family ID |
F3029 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Sally Lee, b. 20 Sep 1782, d. 12 Nov 1806 (Age 24 years) |
| Married |
30 Oct 1803 |
| Children |
| | 1. Henry Lee Munroe, b. 19 Feb 1804, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F3389 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Mary Cotton Ballard, b. Abt 1779, d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
20 Sep 1807 |
| Children |
| | 1. James Ballard Munroe, b. 3 Jul 1808, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Sally Lee Munroe, b. 10 Oct 1809, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 3. Nathaniel Munroe, b. 1 Aug 1811, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Mary Munroe, b. Est 1813, d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
20 Jan 2009 |
| Family ID |
F3390 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Nathaniel served his apprenticeship with Abel Hutchins in Concord, New Hampshire and then went into the clock making and brass foundry business with his brother, Daniel, (1800-1807). Their shop stood on the site of William Whitings's house and was the old L part of that house. The L was removed to give place to a more sightly structure. They planted the large buttonwood trees (sycamores) which were still standing on the property in 1869.
In 1808, Daniel left the business and moved to Boston and Nathaniel moved the business to the mill-dam into a building then standing just east of the present (1869) site of the post office. He also took on a partner, Samuel Whiting, and changed the name of the business to "Munroe and Whiting". His business did quite well. He made mostly clocks with 8-day movements, mostly hand made. He had seven or eight apprentices in a two-story building 30 feet front, and 15 feet deep. He also had a small brass foundry on the other side of the dam where he made wheels and other brass parts and also bells. Most of his business was with the south.
Nathaniel married three times. His first wife was from Concord, Massachusetts. They were married by Rev. E. Ripley. His second wife was from Framingham, Massachusetts, and his third wife was from Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1817 he moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He followed his pursuit of clockmaking there for more than 30 years, but rather as a repairer and as a dealer in watches and jewelry. He became quite well to do.
Nathaniel was about five feet seven inches, compactly built, dark complexion, black eyes and hair, quick in his movements and speech, full of fun and life.
He was at least as fond of play as work, and never more in his element than in his frequent excursions to the seashore with his heavy ducking gun. His friends thought his removal to Baltimore was not a little influenced by the canvas-backs that so abound in the Chesapeake Bay. His avowed inducement was the favorable report of the trade and the climate of Maryland which were sent him by his neighbor, Benjamin K. Hager, mathematical-instrument maker, who left Concord about two years before him.
He continued all his life in the same easy, good-natured, and good tempered man, fond of friends and social enjoyments, liking to the last the out-of-doors sports that had been the delight of his earlier days. In 1812, he became a member of the Social Circle (Concord, Massachusetts) and resigned in 1817 when he moved to Baltimore. The last days of his life were grieved by the atrocities committed on our Northern troops as they passed through Baltimore to the defense of Washington, and he did not live long enough to see any compensation for those doings. He retained his faculties and, generally, good health till old age.
Ref: Lexington Munroes, 2nd ed. 15-21-2
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