Dover Manufacturing Company Records
Collection Number: 6611
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Dover Manufacturing Company
Records, 1822-1898
Collection Number:
6611
Creator:
Dover Manufacturing
Quantity:
0 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Receipts (Acknowledgments), records (documents)
.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes notebook, 1822; on cover of notebook, "Yarn beamed
on section warps;" order for wages, 1824, from D.M.C. Upper Store to Eleanor Demeret
for labor at Factory No. 1; and receipt for board, received of Cocheco Manufacturing
Company, 1867.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
Volume gives number and weight of beam, number of yarn and thread, and names of
workers. Collection also includes a printed pay form completed in manuscript, dated
March 27, 1824, from D.M.C. Upper Store to Eleanor Demeret for labor at Factory No.
1; and a receipt dated Aug. 15, 1867, indicating that payment had been received of
Cocheco Manufacturing Co. as allowance on board of operatives.
PROVENANCE:
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Witol A. Casper.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Witol A. Casper.
Names:
Demeret, Eleanor.
Fettyplace, William.
Kimball, Jonathan.
Pickering, John K. (John Kenneth), 1926-
Shimmin, William.
American Textile History Museum
Boston and Maine Corporation.
Boston Dyewood & Chemical Company.
Cocheco Manufacturing Company.
Cocheco Print Works (Dover, N.H.)
Dover Cotton Factory Company.
Dover Manufacturing Company (Dover, N.H.)
Howel Cotton Company (Boston, Mass.)
Lawrence Manufacturing Company.
Pacific Mills.
Dover Bank.
Subjects:
Banks and banking
Business enterprises
Business records
Company stores
Cotton fabrics
Cotton manufacture
Cotton weaving
Dyes and dyeing
Industries
Labor-related
Textile industry
Textile printing
Textile workers
Wages
Weaving
Women textile workers
Cotton technology, General
Warping and dressing
Form and Genre Terms:
Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Dover Manufacturing Company Records #6611. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1822-1867 | |
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housed in collection 7025m, box 3
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1868-1898 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1824-1828 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1850-1877 | |