2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - Note from the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Active in New York City, New York, 1810-1819. Sources: Elizabeth Towne Schmitt. Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 168.
2018-05-07/2019-04-29 - Note from Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, November 19, 2017. - New York City directories contain the following listings for James Buchan [Bucken, Buckin, Bucking} from 1802 to 1825: 1802: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 55 Church 1803: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 72 Murray 1804: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 28 Vesey 1805 and 1806: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 48 Anthony 1807: [not listed] 1808 and 1809: Buckin, James, musical instrumentmaker, 8 Anthony 1810: Buchan, J., musical inst. maker, upper end Chapel 1811: Bucking, James, instrument maker, 40 Thomas 1812: Bucking, James, instrument maker, 36 Anthony 1813 and 1814: Bucking, James, instrument maker, Anthony n. Hudson 1815: Buchan, James, cabinet-maker, rear 7 Anthony 1816: Buchan, James, organ builder, 170 Grand 1817: Bucken, James, organ builder, 170 Grand 1818-1821: [not listed] 1822: Bucken, James, cabinetmaker, 221 Church 1823: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 221 Church 1824: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, Desbrosses n. Greenwich 1825: Buchan, James, cabinet maker, 8 Lispenard Source: Virginia Larkin Redway, Music Directory of Early New York City: A File of Musicians, Music Publishers and Musical Instrument-Makers Listed in New York Directories from 1786 through 1835, Together with the Most Important New York Music Publishers from 1836 through 1875 (New York: New York Public Library, 1941), 61-62, accessed July 13, 2017, https://archive.org/details/musicdirectoryof00redw.
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