Papers, 1812-1873.

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Papers, 1812-1873.

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This collection contains business documents, account books, and letters of the Smith family primarily concerning their carding machine. Included are real estate inventories, land and pew deeds, receipts, bonds, and warrants, in addition to deeds of shares in the company, a bill of sale for one-third interest, and the articles of partnership, 1817. The collection also contains the dissolution of the partnership of Alpheus Smith, letters to John Adams Smith relative to the settling of debts held by the company, several fire insurance policies, e.g., Worcester Fire Insurance Company, and the signatures of subscribers to the Leicester League, 1864. One volume is a cashbook for the Woodcock, Smith & Company. In it are recorded income and expenditures for the business for the period 1812 to 1824. In addition to unspecified accounts involving companies and individuals, the volume refers to expenses for card settings, postage, needles, wine, cloth, and traveling. The John Adams Smith daybook, for the period 1828 to 1820, contains brief entries listing his employees, their salaries and dates of work performed, and his personal accounts, as well as those of his business, including accounts with Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The James and John Adams Smith account book, for the period 1822 to 1823, lists accounts the firm established with local men and women for the "putting out" of card clothing. In addition to Leicester families, the firm recruited workers from Spencer, Rutland, Paxton, Charlton, and the Brookfields. Under the "putting out" system, workers took home the materials required to set the cards, completed the work, and then returned the finished cards to the firm. They were apparently paid in cash. The accounts were balanced with "cards to sett" versus "cards returned."

2 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.1 folder.

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Smith, John, 1787-1865

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Smith, Rufus, 1792-1818.

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Woodcock, John, 1776-1814.

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Smith, James.

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James Smith was a printer's apprentice in Virginia. From the description of James Smith reminiscences, 1840-1843. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244007371 Epithet: of Add MS 27925 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0002d5 Schoolteacher, member of the 9th Michigan Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, and farmer; of Romeo (Macomb Co.), Mich. From the description ...

Smith family.

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John Adams Smith (1787-1860), the son of Benoni and Mehitabel Smith, was born in Rutland, Mass., on 24 September 1787. He married, on 9 November 1820, Sally Sargent (1797-1849), the daughter of John and Sally Sargent, of Leicester, Mass. They had four children: John Sargent (1821- ); William Adison (1824- ); Sarah Jane (1826- ); and Mary Denny (1830- ). Smith, along with James Smith ( - ), Alpheus Smith ( - ), and Rufus Smith (1792-1818), were merchants in Leicester. Tog...

James and John Adams Smith (Firm)

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Smith, Alpheus W. (Alpheus Wilson), 1876-1968

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Physicist. From the description of Intellectual autobiography, ca. 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84971943 Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University. Dean Smith was instrumental in establishing the University as a major research center. From the description of Papers, 1921-1960. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 15055877 ...

Woodcock, Smith and Company.

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Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831

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Thomas was a New England printer and bookseller who strongly supported the American Revolution. He was also a founder of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. From the description of ALS: Worcester [Massachusetts], to Mr. Bress, 1795 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86160118 Caleb Alexander was born in 1755 in Northfield, Massachusetts, a town founded by his grandfather. He attended Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown Universities, receiving degrees fro...