Records, 1819-1848.

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Records, 1819-1848.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122355319

The records are a miscellaneous collection of papers relating to the erection and operation of the factory, including correspondence of William Almond, documents concerning water power for its operation, a broadside for the sheriff's sale in 1842, and various agreements, bills and receipts. Included is an estimate of the operation of a cotton factory on the Brandywine in Delaware (1822), which is almost certainly the factory of Du Planty, McCall & Company near Wilmington.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Eyre, Manuel, 1777-1845.

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Manuel Eyre, a Philadelphia merchant of Quaker ancestry, was born in 1777. His father, Manuel Eyre, Sr., (1736-1805) was a shipwright in Kensington and a colonel in the Contintental Army. He obtained his training in the counting house of Henry Pratt and Abraham Kintzing and in 1803 joined with Charles Massey, Jr., (b. 1778) to form the mercantile firm of Eyre & Massey, a partnership that lasted until Eyre's death in 1845. The firm of Eyre & Massey owned over 20 v...

Du Planty, McCall & Company.

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Oakes, Thomas, -1823

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Blockley Cotton Factory (Philadelphia, Pa.).

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The Blockley Cotton Factory was established ca. 1819 in Blockley Township, now part of West Philadelphia, by Philadelphia merchant Manuel Eyre. It was leased to William Almond, but failed in the depression of 1839-1843. From the description of Records, 1819-1848. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122355319 ...

Almond, William Douglas, 1868-1916

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