[Papers]. 1798-1821.

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[Papers]. 1798-1821.

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Includes accounts and letters of John Scholfield, his son, Joseph, and other family members. The accounts deal primarily with orders for cloth from customers all over New England, to be made from the customers' own wool with the Scholfields keeping a portion of the wool as partial payment. Accounts also include orders by the Scholfields for card clothing, dyestuffs, etc.; sketches of textile machinery, possibly for machines built for the Byfield Woolen Factory in Newbury, Mass.; correspondence from customers about wool consigned for processing into cloth and from selling agents in New York; and typescripts and newspaper accounts of the Scholfield family. Microfilm represents only part of the collection.

500 items + 10 vols.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Scholfield family.

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The Scholfield family played an important role in the early history of the American textile industry. Arthur and John Scholfield came to Boston from Liverpool in 1793 and began to make woolen cloth in Charlestown, Mass. John made textile machinery for this endeavor based on his memory of machinery in England. The carding machines built by the Scholfields provided the impetus for the spread of this technology throughout New England. The Scholfields moved to Newburyport, Mass. in Dec. 1793, and bu...

Scholfield, John

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Scholfield, Joseph.

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Byfield Woolen Factory.

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