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August 21, 1801
SALEM GAZETTE, Salem, Massachusetts, August 21, 1801 The front page has a notice concerning a business established by Samuel Slater, perhaps the most famous American industrialist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The notice, headed : "Samuel Slater and Company" has details about his latest business venture, reading, in part: "The Subscribers having erected and extensive Manufactory for SPINNING COTTON, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, near Pawtucket Falls, four miles from Providence, R. I. have entered into Co-partnership under the above firm, for conducting the same....Their yarn is at least equal, if not superior, to any manufactured in America..."
The notice is signed in type: Samuel Slater, and by three other gentleman.
Quite uncommon to have any mention of Slater, regarded as the father of the America cotton industry as well as the founder of the American Industrial Revolution. Great to have this notice on the front page from a title not far from where he established his first textile mill.
News of the day day with other ads. Complete in four pages with some stray notations, some lite foxing and fold foxing, unbound and untrimmed, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" because he brought British textile technology to America. A native of England, he was apprenticed as an engineer and in 1789 violated a British emigration law that prohibited the spread of British manufacturing technology to other nations. When he left for New York, he had memorized the plans for the mill and offered to sell his knowledge to American industrialists. He then gave it to Moses Brown, who used the plan, and made major profit. He soon found work in Rhode Island replicating British factory equipment for a textile mill, and earned the owner's backing to design and build the first water powered mill in the United States.
Slater established tenant farms and towns around his textile mills such as Slatersville, Rhode Island. Due to his technical knowledge from Britain, he became a full partner and eventually went into business for himself and grew wealthy. By the end of Slater's life he owned thirteen spinning mills.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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