Manufacturing fund ledger, 1788-1801.

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Manufacturing fund ledger, 1788-1801.

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The ledger contains the general and special accounts of the manufacturing fund. Accounts give cash transactions and expenditures on the factory building and "utensils" or machinery. Accounts are arranged under the names of society and committee members, including the treasurer, Christopher Marshall, and President Samuel Powel. The accounts record some sums owed to individual employees, including a few female spinners under the putting-out system, but the ledger is at least one step removed from actual production. Other accounts are arranged for each of the products made in the society's factory, including handkerchiefs, cotton, jeans, dimity, shawls, calico, muslinet, denim and corduroy. The bulk of the transactions are from the period of active operations, with the settlement of accounts taking place between 1790 an 1801.

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