Bancroft family.

The Bancroft family were merchants and manufacturers in England and America.

John Bancroft (1750-1833) was a chair manufacturer and timber merchant in Lancashire. His son, John, was born in Manchester in 1774 and was apprenticed in his father's business. In 1822 the family emigrated to America. John, Jr., established a woolen mill near Brandywine Bridge in Wilmington, Del., with his sons, John (1802-1882) and Samuel (1804-1891). The third son, Joseph (1803-1874), remained in England to complete his apprenticeship at his uncle John Bright's cotton mill in Rochdale, but joined the family in Wilmington in 1824.

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