to his wife, in 1750, remarks that he "heard very fine music in the church" (at Bethlehem), that "flutes, oboes, French horns, and trumpets accompanied the organ."
After Bromfield, the next organ-builder in New England was Thomas Johnston, who built an instrument for Christ Church, Boston, in 1753. He is known to have supplied the Episcopal Church in Salem with another organ in 1754, containing one manual and six stops. This pioneer maker died in ] 769. Dr. Josiah Leavitt, a physician of Boston, became interested in the art through intercourse with Bromfield, with the result that he subsequently devoted himself to practical organ-building for many years, with a fair measure of success. The next organ-builder in New England after Johnston was Pratt, who went out of the business toward 1800. William M. Goodrich, a native of Templeton, Mass., born in 1777, began to build organs in Boston in 1803. He was a pupil of Leavitt, and was the first native-born organ-builder