1I: From James Jay, 20 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
...of any skilled worker, and mandated strict fines and imprisonment for anyone, especially ship captains and customs officers, who induced or aided the emigration of artisans. In 1774 a second act expanded the previous law to include cotton textile manufacturing. See Witt
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Digges, 12 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
There had been attempts to set up textile manufactures at the outbreak of the Revolution, some of them encouraged by public authority and one of these was “The Manufacturing Society in Williamsburg,” which early in 1777 was advertising for “likely Negro lads from 15 to 20...
3To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 17 September 1789 (Madison Papers)
For Coxe’s efforts to obtain models and sketches of Richard Arkwright’s textile manufacturing machinery, see Anthony F. C. Wallace and David J. Jeremy, “William Pollard and the Arkwright Patents,”
4To George Washington from Christian Febiger, 5 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
...serious financial difficulty at the end of the war, Digges went from London to Dublin where he soon became heavily involved in the investigation of Irish textile manufacture and the exportation of Irish indentured servants and, in defiance of official policy, encouraged the immigration of artisans skilled in the making of textiles to the United States. For an appraisal of Digges’s activities...
5To Alexander Hamilton from Joseph Whipple, 16 September 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
For a discussion of textile manufactures in Portsmouth at this time, see
6John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 July 1800 (Adams Papers)
Reel 134) and described textile manufacturing at Crossen (now Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland) and Grünburg (now Ziel ona Góra) and commented on women’s fashions. The letter was printed in the
7To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Holmes, 17 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...1802 to 1806, serving as its speaker from 1803 to 1805, when he was elected judge to Virginia’s General Court. An acquaintance of TJ’s, he corresponded with him about agricultural and textile manufacturing matters and, in 1818, was one of the Rockfish Gap commissioners who worked with TJ on early plans for the University of Virginia. His brother, David Holmes, served as a United States...
8George Sullivan to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
textiles; manufacturing [index entry]
9John S. Ravenscroft to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
slaves; and textile manufacturing [index entry]
10Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 5 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
slaves; and textile manufacturing [index entry]