Dover Manufacturing Company Records
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Scope and Contents
Yarn bean volume gives number and weight of beam, number of yarn and thread, and names of workers. Collection also includes a printed pay forms from D.M.C. Upper Store for labor at Factory No. 1; receipts and printed checks; a letter, May 15, 1828, from John K. Pickering, Portsmouth, N.H., to William Shimmin, treasurer of the Dover Manufacturing Co., about financial problems relating to the failure of the company; and a letter, May 7, 1828, from William Fettyplace with a bill for work done.
Dates
- 1822-1898
Creator
- Dover Manufacturing Company (Dover, N.H.) (creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The first textile mill in Dover, N.H., the Dover Cotton Factory was chartered in 1812 at a site on the Cocheco River and was known as the "upper factory" [Mill No. 1]. Further expansion occurred at the lower falls in the early 1820's and again in 1825 when a calico printing works was included. In 1823-1824 the mills were renamed the Dover Manufacturing Co. In 1827 the print works incorporated as a separate enterprise and became the Cocheco Manufacturing Co., which purchased the debt of the D.M.C. The Cocheco Manufacturing Co. was acquired by the Pacific Mills in 1909 and became the Cocheco Division.
Extent
.1 cubic feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Witol A. Casper.
Processing Information
The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession numbers for this collection were 0022.471 and 0022.499
- Boston Dyewood & Chemical Company
- Boston and Maine Corporation
- Cocheco Manufacturing Company
- Cocheco Print Works (Dover, N.H.)
- Cotton fabrics
- Cotton manufacture
- Cotton weaving
- Demeret, Eleanor
- Dover Cotton Factory Company
- Dover Manufacturing Company (Dover, N.H.)
- Dyes and dyeing
- Fettyplace, William
- Howel Cotton Company (Boston, Mass.)
- Kimball, Jonathan (Cotton manufacturer)
- Lawrence Manufacturing Company
- Pacific Mills
- Pickering, John K.
- Shimmin, William
- Textile industry
- Textile printing
- Textile workers
- Wages.
- Women textile workers
Source
- American Textile History Museum (Organization)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository