There is a discrepancy in the reporting on the bell’s weight, although that could be due to lousy printing: 1. The June 23, 1871 article that reported the bell’s arrival at the church appears to say that the bell weighed “a little over 4,100 pounds,” but the printing is so bad on the digital scan that the first two digits are good guesses and the third digit is illegible. 2. In an article on the gift of the clock by Julia Turner, published on July 14, 1897, the bell was reported as weighing “about 3,500 pounds.”
The bell apparently included a mechanism that allowed the clapper to strike the bell at different points. It is described in the same June 23, 1871 article on the bell’s arrival, but there’s one word that is completely illegible: “It is from the manufactory of Veazey & White, East Hampton, in this state, and weighs a little over 4,1[?]0 pounds, is in the key of C, and is hung with a patent arrangement which makes the bell revolve [?????]g of a circular wheel at each swing so that the tongue does not strike always at the same points on the bell.” Or was it the bell that moved?