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Peter Hill

1767–1820

United States

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Peter Hill (July 19, 1767 – December 1820) was an American clockmaker. Hill, a former enslaved person, was the first African American clockmaker and the only African American clockmaker working during the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, if we set aside Benjamin Banneker.

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