[Business records.] 1862-1879.

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East Bethel Mill (East Bethel, Vt.). [Business records.]

[Business records.] 1862-1879.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636566947

The bulk of the records in this collection consists of business correspondence and invoices sent to the East Bethel Mill and the Turner Mill from D. F. Faulkner in Boston. Letters contain directions and instructions on all phases of woolen manufacture including how many looms to run, how much wool to buy, how much and when to pay the employees, what colors to produce and what kind of wool to use. The invoices are for manufacturing items sent to the mills from D. F.'s store in Boston, and also contain notes and instructions from D. F. to his sons. Correspondence from Joshua Wedgewood of East Bethel, Vt., who assisted F. T. with operations in E. Bethel and continued to purchase wool for the Faulkners after the East Bethel fire, is found throughout the collection. Wedgewood was F. T.'s father-in-law from his first marriage to Frances Anna Wedgewood (d.1855). There is a small section of personal correspondence to F. T. from his mother, Elizabeth Cole (d.1878), his brother, Dwight, and his daughter, Anna Theresa Faulkner (1857-1920). The correspondence from his mother discusses family matters including her concern over his buying a substitute during the Civil War. Anna writes from the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College and later from her first home with her husband and new baby. Dwight oversaw operations at both the East Bethel factory and at the Plymouth Woolen Mills, which was briefly called Dwight Manufacturing in the early 1870s. The only records of the Plymouth Woolen Mills are in correspondence from Dwight to his brother, Francis T., describing his mill and its business, who his employees are, and what he pays them. He asks for advice or dispenses advice on various matters including dyeing for certain colors and mill building repairs. In one letter Dwight describes a small "strike" staged by his workers when he hires a new employee.

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