2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991) - Born 1723 in Boston, Massachusetts; attended Harvard College, 1738-1745; built an organ for own use; died 1746 in Boston, Massachusetts. Sources: Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 398.
2018-05-07/2019-02-11 - Note from the Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, July 3, 2017. - Orpha Ochse gives Bromfield-s name as Edward Broomfield (Bromfield), Jr. Henry M. Brooks, which Ochse cites as the source of a statement by the Reverend Thomas Prince, minister of the Old South Church, about Bromfield and the organ he started to build, gives his name as Edward Bromfield, Jr. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1975), 25. Henry M. Brooks, Olden-Time Music: A Compilation from Newspapers and Books (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888), 32.
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