Slater family business records

Scope and Contents Expenses related to the spinning mill at Pawtucket, including purchase of cotton from Georgia and Cayenne, French Guiana, hardware, equipment, and lumber. In June 1795, the company paid Pliny Earle & Brothers for two sets of machine cards. Also contains an entry for cash paid to Providence slave trader and merchant Cyprian Sterry for a bell in November 1793. Other entries show costs of freighting cotton yarn to Boston, and transactions with merchants who sold Almy & Brown’s goods,...

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Entries of Almy & Brown’s business in North Providence. Contains charges to various individuals, merchants, and shopkeepers for orders and purchase of finished goods, including Sarah Maxwell, Rachel Hopkins, and Hannah Goff. There are also outgoing payments for operational expenses like labor.

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Concerns the business in North Providence. Expenses included payment to Sylvanus Brown for making a log wheel pattern, and board and wages of workers and tradesman such as John Bucklin, John Field, and Benjamin Kingsley

Scope and Contents Contains records of Almy, Slater & Brown mill operations in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, as well as Slater & Tiffany’s factory in Oxford. Included are accounts with mill and factory laborers Prince Kennedy, Sillinda Bowers, Sally Davenport, Eliza Robinson, and John Bucklin, an African American; carding machine inventor Pliny Earle (1762-1832); and merchants William Dean, Draper & May; and Wells Coverly of Boston. There are also accounts with other works...