Identifier: historicalcoll00barb (find matches)
Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
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Publisher: Newark, N.J. : B. Olds, for J.H. Bradley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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uary, 1793, Peter Colt, Esq., of Hartford, then comptroller of thestate of Connecticut, was appointed general superintendent of the affairsof the company, with full powers to manage the concerns of the society, asif they were his own individual property, Major LEnfan being retained,however, as engineer; but he, after having spent, uselessly, a large sum ofmoney, resigned his office in the following September. Mr. Colt, thus in * The first cotton spun by machinery in America was at Pawtucket, Rhode Island,Dec, 1790, by Samuel Slater, an English emigrant, who may be properly styled theparent of the American cotton manufacture. As an evidence of the vast improvementsin the manufacture and culture of cotton, it is stated that at this period good cotton clothwas fifty cents per yard. For a more full history of this subject, the reader is referred to the memoirs of Arkwright, Hargreaves, Cartwright, Slater, and Whitney, in the Memoirsof Eminent Mechanics, by the junior compiler of this work.
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PASSAIC COUNTY. 409 sole charge of the works, completed the race-way, conducting the water to the first factory erected by the society. The canal to tide-water had beenabandoned before the departure of the engineer. The factory, 90 feet long by 40 wide, and 4 stories high, was finished in1794, when cotton yarn was spun in the mill; but yarn had been spun inthe preceding year, by machinery moved by oxen. In 1794 also, calicoshawls and other cotton goods were printed; the bleached and unbleachedmuslins being purchased in New York. In the same year the society gavetheir attention to the culture of the silkworm, and directed the superintend-ent to plant the mulberry-tree for this purpose. In April of this year, also,the society, at the instance of Mr. Colt, employed a teacher to instruct, gra-tuitously, on the Sabbath, the children employed in the factory, and others.This was probably the first Sunday-school established in New Jersey. Notwithstanding their untoward commencement, and the ma

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