History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Part 24

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1150

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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

"Those persons who formerly considered themselves as members of this company, but hed not patriotism and fortitude enfficient to encoun- ter the difficulties and endure the hardships and privatione of the cam- paign, are ordered to deliver np their arms and accoutrements, being no longer considered members of the company."

On Dec. 21, 1814, Capt. Anderson issued this order :

" Company drille are dispensed with until further orders. For the conveniences of members the company will be divided into three classes. The first class will include all the members residing in Chester and its vicinity, to be under the immediate command of the captain. The second clase will include those who reside in the neighborhood of Marcus Hook. and all others who may find it most convenient to meet at that place, to be commanded by Lieutenant Marshall. The third class will be under the command of Lientenant Evane, to include all those who may find it most convenient to meet at the Black Horse Tavern in Middletown. The members of each class, respectively, will assembls at the quarters of the officer commanding on every Wednesday at 11 o'clock, A.M , with arms, except in wet weather. The officers commanding the second and third class will report to the Captain on every Thursday. The names of absentees to be inserted in their reports, also the names of those who neglect to keep their muskets in order. All such as neglect to comply with this order will he considered deserters and reported as such to the commanding General. Those who obtained leave of absence before the troops left camp, on account of sickness, and have not sioce reported themselves, will report forthwith, otherwise they will be reported as unfit for the service of the U. S. and discharged accordingly. The Quarter-Master will report to Philad. in order to procure the ratione due to the company."

I have not learned when the volunteers were mns- tered out of the service of the United States. Martin says it was Dec. 6, 1814. The foregoing orders show that that date is inaccurate.

In 1863, when the bill was before Congress provid- ing for pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812, a meeting of the survivors of that struggle in Delaware County was called at the Columbia House, in Ches- ter, on December 6th, and organized by the appoint- ment of Hon. George G. Leiper chairman, and Capt. John Martin secretary. The object of the meeting being stated, it was

" Resolved, That we approve of the convention of soldiers of the war of 1812, which is to assemble at Philadelphia, on the Ninth of Jannary next, and that the following persone are hereby appointed delegates to said convention from thie county, viz : James Serrill, George G. Leiper, Levi Reynolds, Henry Myers, David Hayes, George Litzenberg, und Aaron Johnson.

" Resolved, That the soldiers of the war of 1812, poorly clad, poorly fed, subjected to great exposure in defending the Coasts and a long line of Northero froutier, after a tardy delay, should not be stinted in the be- stowment of Government bounty, and that any discrimination against the soldiers of 1812 is manifestly unjust.

" Resolved, That the above proceedings be published in the pepere of this county, and that the Secretary be requested to forward a copy of them to Dr. J. B. Sutherland, of Philadelphia.

" GEORGE G. LEIPEA, Chairman.

"JOHN MARTIN, Secretary."

The following is the roll of the soldiers of the vol- unteer and drafted companies from Delaware County : ROLL OF MIFFLIN GUARDS, FIRST REGIMENT, PENNSYL- VANIA VOLUNTEERS.

Commanded by Col. Clement C. Biddle.

Samuel Anderson, captain; Frederick Shull, first lieutenant; David A. Marshall, second lieutenant; William Biggart, ensign. (Atan elsc- tion held at Camp Dupont Oct. 21, 1814, John Caldwell was elected first lieutenant.)

Sergeants .- John Caldwell, Benjamin Iaskine, William Evans, Henry líorne.

Corporals .- John Thomeon, George Hawkins, Joho Mershall, Joseph Derrick, John Rowan.

Privates .- Samuel Edwarda, Edward Minshall, Thomas Kille, Jolın Gar-

rett, John Lambert, John Lloyd, Joseph Hall, David Fisher, Joseph Mertin, Jr., John Hawkins, Levi B. Martin, Thomas Parsona, LaZa- rus Martin, Daniel Broomall, Robert Beatty, Thomas Pedrick, James Burns, Jeremiah Brown, Samnel Palmer, Evan Bonsall, Thomas Merion, John Lutkin, Joseph Hooper, Jacob Duey, Robert Clark, Jonathan S. Bonsall, William Kinsey, William Helms, John Mc- Lain, Thomse Ash, Peter Long, Cornelius Macky, David Smart, Na- than Hayes, David Bonsall, Isaac Brooks, Daniel McGineley, John McGilton, Samuel Bunting, Philip Painter, George Myers, Davis Smith, Thomas P. Ash, Jonathan Quicksall, Thomas Fleming, Thomas Painter, William Beatty, James Evans, Thomas P. Smith, Charles Lear, John Stevenson, John Pyewell, William Geary, Wil- liam H. Marshall, James Lock, Daniel Mitchell, John McKee, John Martin (Hook), Joseph Wilkinson, Leonard Cole, William Cummins, Thomas D. Barnard, Thomas Bowers, John Statton, John Hahn, George Ross, Thomas Williams, Moses Wells, Jr., Thomas McCul- lough, William Smith, Andrew Rively, John McCleaster, William Glover, Joshua Bonsall, Samnel Bonsall, Jr., Thomse Bonsall, Clement Smith, William Cox, John Shaw, George W. Jolinson, William Jones, William Humphreys, John Frazier, John Meyers, John Wetherill.

ROLL OF DELAWARE COUNTY FENCIBLES, TWENTY-SECOND PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA.

Entered service Sept. 21, 1814. October 14th encamped at Marcus Hook. James Serrill, captain; George G. Leiper, first lieutenant ; James Ser-

rill, Jr., second lieutenant; George Serrill, ensigu ; Muses Adams, sergeant-major.

Sergeants .- John B. Pearson, Richard R. Jones, David Rose, Jr., Joseph Oak ford.

Corporals .- Henry Wood, Joseph Shallcross, Andrew Urian, John C. Farrell.

Musicians .- James Warner, Robert Holmes,

Privates .- John Stroop, Enoch Bonsall, Thomas J. Martin, Ellwood Ormsby, Mathew McNulty. Casper Trites, Jesse Z. Paschall, John Rively, Daniel Smith, John Dobbins, George Williamson, William Fines, Renben Bonsall, Charles Justie, James Cleary, John Dunant, Richard G. Martin, Charles G. Soowden, Joseph Pyle, William Lind- say, George Caldwell, David Cummins, James Brattin, Aaron Mar- tin, Joseph Hibbert, Lewis B. Stannard, Clement Hanse, Charles Bonsall, Charles Gibson, Charles Attmore, Miles McSweeny, Aaron Helma, Cadwalsder M. Helms, Andrew Noblit, Aodrew Enberg, Marshall Siddons, Thomae Bonsall, William McCormick, Samuel Bonsall, John Brown, John llansell, Joseph T. Jones, William Tor- rance, John Dermont, William Grubb, John Bradford, John Martin (Chester), Townsend T. Johns, William Torrence, John McDermott.

ROLL OF CAPT. WILLIAM MORGAN'S COMPANY, FIRST COM- PANY OF FIRST BRIGADE, THIRD DIVISION OF PENN- SYLVANIA MILITIA.

Encamped at Marcas Hook Oct. 10, 1814.

Sergeants .- James Morgan, Caleb Smith, John Mather, Lewis Brook, Charles Crozer.

Corporals .- David Trainer, William Urain, George Duvis, Isaac Smith, Quartermaster-Sergeant .- Isaac Atmore.

Privates .- George Delainey, James Lee, William Gill, Samuel Brown, Vernon Lewis, Jeremiah Maul, William McClelin, Aaron Hibberd, Henry Hondly, Adam Litzenburg, John Schringer, Benjamin Ar- ment, William Fraim, Hezekinh Kamp, Isauc Jones, James Wright, Israel Jones, Philip Trites, William Wright, John Forsyth, Isaac Cox, William Armstrong, John Stewart, George Yoecome, Alexan- der Garey, Jacob Byers, William Stewart, Jobn Tree, John Heppel- finger, John O'Harrahı, Joseph Davis, Robert Low, John Smith, Isaac Burns, Jonathan Davis, Williem Mace, Robert Valentine, Jones Jone, William Eppright, Joseph Rhudolph (2), James Lindsay, Jr., John Latch, Enoch Ramsey, Evan Peonell, John Hoven, Joho Kerne, John Gare, Jr., Samnel Humphrey, William Orr, James Price, Hugh McDade, John Little, George Welle, John Hoff, Elias Worrell, Jonathan Veroon, Joshna Hardey, Joseph Green, Robert Lithgaw, James McDougal, Euoch Dickason, William Palmer, Thomae Taylor, Jonathan Morgan, George Dunn, Davis Smith, Jo- seph Rhudolph, John Gore, Samuel Wright, Thomas Rhudolph, Jacob Grim, David Smith, James Fraim, John Fraim, Samuel Lind- sey, Lewis Williamson, John Crozer, William Trites, John Ewing, Michael Flahady, John Morton, John McDonnal, Jemee Holdt, Goorge Ely, John Cozens, Edward Waters, Septamus Flounders, John Green, Isaac Sharplees, Joho H. Worrell.

FROM THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND TO 1850.

ROLL OF FIRST COMPANY, SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT PENN- SYLVANIA MILITIA.

Commanded by Lieut .- Col. John L. Pierson, of Ridley. Captain, John Hall ; First Lieutenant, Matthew Dunbar ; Second Lieu- tenant, William Scofield ; Third Lieutenant, Thomas Olly ; Ensigo, Robert mub.

Sergeants -Jacob Wice, Jolin Bowers, Jr., Joseph Dunwoody, Jahez Lewis.

Privates .- Joseph Bittle, Isaac Davis, Robert Corker, Moses Newlin, Joseph Fulton, Bennett Lewis, Thomas J. Miles, Isaac Richards, John Daver, John Reyner, Joshua Lainhoff, Samuel Taylor, Joba Ormsby, Benjamin Serril, Jobn Mann, John Engle, John McGahey, Jobo Cray, Peter King, Joseph Evens, Samuel Lynch, Abraham Miller, Philip Rap, Thomas Cer, Armet Rossiter, William Phillips, Jacob Kulp, Ezekiel Shur, Jesse Shauer or Shawer, Jacob Root, Danish Root, John Job, Frederick Hongh, Isaac Zebar, John Mc- Kealher, George Hough, Daniel Rice, Thomas Scot, Jabez Nice, Samuel Lindsey, William Rudabaugh, Samuel Rudolph, James Blundat, William Field, Peter Buros, William Evens, Lewis Peonell, Joba Alexander, Edward McLary, Thomas C. Pearce, Eli Roberts, Samuel Lindsey, John Standley, Jobo Humphreys, Jacob Wiley, Jobo Ferguson, John lloofstickler, Benjamin Worrell, Thomas E. Downs, James Everheart, Samuel Miller, Stou, Samuel Miller, Wht, John Shaffener, John White, David Royer, Adam Poley. Jacob Donahower, Samuel Walker, Peter Defrain, Conrad Baker, Jesse Boyer, David Shuteman, Jobn Kap, Nathan Brook, Mittle Hause, Andrew Laird, Jacob Haven, Martaio Sheater, Jobo Walker, Alex- ander Clemane, Malen Rossiter, Miles Beaty, Francie Enos, William Fox, James McFagen, William McNeal, Marcus Boon, Charles Bugle, Mifflia Lewis, Joba Hoope, Jacob Jones, Able Lodge, Daniel Davie, Samuel Jenet, Philip Litzenburg, Benjamin Urian, Joha Hoiser, Denis Sheridan, George Brannan, James Hughs, Isaac Gar- rison, Mordecai Thomas, Philip Miller, Jacob Stoneback, Henry Longacker, Abiza Rossiter, Able Williams, Jacob Smith, Joba Shinkle, Jacob King, Michael King, George Geger, Jacob Defraio, James Lundy, Jacob Longaker, Jamee Adrikens, Henry Stophel- bine, William Danafelser, Isaac Jones, Henry Sheet, Jolin Possoy, Daniel Young, George Litzenburg, John Saylor, Amos Griffith, Andrew Rively.

ROLL OF FIFTH COMPANY, SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT PENN- SYLVANIA MILITIA, CAPT. JAMES LACKEY COMMAND- ING.

Privates,-Reuben Taylor, George Roberte, Jacob Goodwin, James De- graut, Kenith McKiazy, John Smith, George Hersh, Hezekiah Jackson, Lawrence Wilson, Edward Salyards, Henry Garman, Jacob Forwood, William Hoskins, Joseph Conway, Thompson Hunter, Samuel Sinquet, Jacob Howell, John McDonald, Levi Waldravio, Davis Morgan, David Rider, David Egee, William Town, John Frame, Joseph Rogers, Jobn Cross, Joho Archer, Benjamin Torton, Samuel Eppright, William Thompson, William Sill, Matthew Scott, Thomas Mckeown, Charles Rowland, John King, James Day, Wil- liam White, William Bowers, Joseph H. Lawrence, George Wells, Powell Clayton, Charlee Griffith, John Burk, Benjamin Clare, Evan Griffith, John Walker, Richard Ford, William Bucknell, Hugh Love, David Williamson, Thomas Trimble, Jamee Cuoimings, John Far- row, Samuel Griffith, John Gallino, Francis Himes, John Funter- wise, Thomas Hutcheson, Henry Pearson, Peter Pearson, Thomas Llewellyn, George L. Davis, Joseph Farrow, Thomas Everson, Jona- than Crozier, James Brothers, laaac White, Jobo Kitts, William Martin, Jacob Essex, George Haonum, Benjamin Work, Edward May, Edward W. Robeson, William Dempsey, Samuel Pennell, John Petterson, Timothy Pierce, William Hodge, Beujamio Thomp- Bon, William McCray, Abram Peck, Joba Gilmore, Thomas Kelly, Martin Bryan, Thomas Chaffia, John Nickles, William Sharp, Peter Young, Aaron Carter, Jeremiab Murry, Jesse Sharpless, Oswald Sill, Joho Bane, Isaac Eaches, John Heck, Bartholomew Shimer, Samuel Sullivan, John Haycock, Jacob Stanley, Thomas Cochran, Henry Carr, Atlee Porter, Samuel Cozens, Emmor Davis, Charles Rowland, George Farrow, John Wizer, Lazarus Weidner.

ROLL OF SIXTH COMPANY, SIXTY-FIFTH REGIMENT PENN- SYLVANIA MILITIA, CAPT. BENJAMIN WETHERBY.

Entered United States service Sept. 20, 1814; encampsd at Camp Snyder, Marcus Hook, Oct. 17, 1814.

Sergeunts,-James McGuigan, John Taylor, George Peters, Thomas Ash, Patrick McGuigan.

Corporals .- Samuel Roberts, Barney McGuigan, Benjamin Yarnall. Privates .- Samuel Bittle, Eli Ratteu, James Mitchel, William Davis,

James Huff, Jeliu Griffith, John Henthorn, John Gorby, Aaron Beale, Galiad Buros, William McLaughlin, Sr., Jacob Stewart, John Varly, Thomas Marshall, Aaron Smith, John Davis, William Turner, John Kelly, Samuel Burnet, Jesse Green, James McCoy, Joseph Griffith, Henry Bead, Jesse McKinetry, Woodward Hadipton, Nich- olas Marrow, Daniel Likens, George McBride, Frederick Stimel, Alexander Torbert, Peter Harper, Richard Baker, Abel Green, Fran- cis Harbinson, William Rauzel (or Raugel), David Cornog, Robert Valentine, William Graff, George Russell, Frederick Close, Curtis Barlow, Cornelius Wright, William Odenheimer, William Weare, John R. Price, Archibald Dougherty, William Smith, Jacob Rizer, William Mace, Levan Bernard, Andrew Black, James Weare, Sam- uel Russell, Charles Smith, Thomas Mercer, Benjamin Allison, Isaac Tompkins, Richard Clayton, Aaron Lawrence, Jeremiah Dut- ton, John Smith, William McLaughlin, David Torton, John H. Craig, Joho Barlow, Vincent Jester, Charles McGarraty, John Alcot, John S. Hannum, Robert Steel, Thomas Brown, James Hodge, George Hine, Peter Smith, John Burnet, Joseph Murphy, Jacob Young, Valentine Dick, David Jay, Abel Smedley, Joha S. Travis, Richard Warnick, John Wheeling, James Taylor, John Hoops, Felix Fields, Henry Collins, Joseph Edworthy, Matthew Hopkine, Jamea Weare, Jr., Alexander Parks, Baldwin Weaver, Thomas Jones, An- thony N. Still, Andrew Hunter, Reuben Miles, John Hook, Jona- than Gibson, John King, Joel Scott, Nehemiah Baker, David Broom- ell, John Pyle.

CHAPTER XIII.

FROM THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND TO 1850.

THE second war with England had almost wholly severed communication with the Old World, particu- larly with Great Britain, and the immediate result was an effort on the part of the people to meet the public demand for those commodities which previous to the beginning of hostilities were obtained entirely from Europe. The numberless cruisers of England had swept the merchant marine of the Republic al- most from the seas, until the only vessels bearing the American flag were men-of-war or letters-of-marque ; hence the great demand from this cause stimulated the establishment of manufacturing enterprises, largely throughout the Eastern and in a measure in the Middle States.

It should be remembered that during all our colo- nial history-not only our State but all the colonies -England had persistently, as in Ireland, forbidden the people to engage in manufacturing any articles which might come in competition with the industries of the home country. Although writers during the middle of the last century in Great Britain argued that the American colonies would not for hundreds of years engage in manufacturing, basing their conclu- sion on the then known history of the world, that it was only "after there was such an overplus of inhab- itants, beyond what is necessary for cultivating the soil, as is sufficient for forming large towns, where trade and manufacturing can be carried on to advan- tage;" still there were others who rightly judged the geographical position of the American colonies might make them an exception to the rule as taught in the

HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

annals of the Old World. The English Parliament early became alarmed at the development of the iron industry in the colonies, particularly in Pennsylva- nia, and the establishment of furnaces and rolling- mills, so that in 1749 an act was passed "to encour- age the importation of pig- and bar-iron from His Majesty's colonies in America, and to prevent the | erection of any mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plating Forge to work with a tilt-hammer or any furnace for making steel in any of the said colonies." At that time one forge we know was in operation in Thornbury township, at the pres- ent Glen Mills, and some years before that date was another on Crum Creek,-Peter Dick's Iron Works. The numerous trades, such as carpenters and brick- makers, and the like, were early known on the Dela- ware; hence, from the references found in the Dutch records a quarter of a century before Penn came, I am confident that no bricks in any dwelling standing in Pennsylvania to-day were made in Europe and brought here. Indeed, the bricks which we know came from Governor Printz's mansion-house, at Tin- icum, present every appearance of having been hard- ened merely by the heat of the sun ; and besides, the peculiar yellow clay of which they were made is still found on Tinicum Island. Previous to 1698, we learn from Gabriel Thomas, who came to the colony before Penn, that " brickmakers have twenty shillings per thousand for their bricks at the kiln." Wool-comb- ers, we are also told, " have for combing twelve pence per pound." It would seem from Thomas' account that even in that early day the people of the colony had turned their attention to producing articles of daily use, for he informs us that all sorts of very good paper was made at Germantown, and a fine German linen, "such as no person of quality need be ashamed to wear, and in several places they make very good Druggets, crapes, camblets, and serges, besides other woolen clothes, the manufacture of all which daily improves." One of the first notices we have of the doings of the European settlers in Pennsylvania was that Governor Printz had built a yacht at Tinicum ; and previous to 1758 we learn from Acrelius that Marcus Hook was noticeable for the building of ships, and in 1727 the first paper-mill in the old county of Chester was erected at the present Ivy Mills, in Concord. In 1715, John Camm, a stocking- weaver, was located in Upper Providence, and in 1723 he warned the public against one Mathew Burne, who had been in his employ two years, part of the time at stocking-weaving, and that Burne was no longer connected with him, but "goes about selling stockings in John Camm's name" when the articles were not made by him. Strange as it may seem, until William T. Seal1 had shown the contrary, this Mathew Burne was credited with having made the

first stocking as a regular manufacturer in the United States. But of more particular interest to our present purpose is Gabriel Thomas' reference to " the famous Darby river which comes down from Cumbry by Darby town, whereon are several mills, viz., fulling- mills, corn-mill, &c." Of course, these fulling-mills did not manufacture, but simply scoured the cloth made by the busy housewives of that day. The wives and daughters of the early English settlers, as the Swedes who had preceded them, employed "them- selves in spinning wool and flax, and many of them in weaving."2

During all the period before the Revolutionary war, the greater number of farmers in the colonies had looms for weaving in their dwellings, on which the women wove flax and tow-linen, cloth, and linsey- woolsey of coarse texture but strong and substantial. Indeed, when power other than manual labor was first applied to any part of the process of preparing the raw material to manufacture linen, cotton, or woolen cloths, the mills were very small, containing only a few hundred spindles, where yarn simply was pro- duced, which was afterwards woven by hand in the farm-houses. From that fact the coarse fabrics of that day, in contra-distinction of the imported goods, were known as " domestic," a term which has been contin- ued as the name of shirtings and sheetings even to this day, although the reason for the name had ceased a half-century ago. So general was this individual manufacturing carried on in the colonies to the north of Maryland that David Dulany, the great lawyer of that colony, in 1765, wrote that "the poorest sort of people to the Northward make all their clothes." 3

The unprecedented growth of the United States after the Revolution early directed the attention of thoughtful men to the subject of American manufac- tures, and foremost in advocacy of the establishment of such industries was Tench Coxe, of Philadelphia, -- a member of our bar, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Hamilton. It is now generally conceded that the first manufactory of textile fabrics in the Union was established by Samuel Wetherell, in Philadelphia, previous to 1782, at which date he was making " Jeans, Fustins, Everlastings, Coatings, &c.," suitable for every season of the year, as he in- formed the public by his advertisement in the Penn- sylvania Gazette in April, 1782. Near the close of the year 1791, William Pollard, of Philadelphia, obtained a patent for cottou-spinning which was, we are told by Samuel Weller,' the first water-frame put in motion ju Pennsylvania, but the enterprise failing, its want of success retarded the progress of cotton-spinning in that vicinity. The time, however, was fast approach- ing when the spirit of enterprise, born of necessity, would stimulate the development of the manufacture of textile goods to an abnormal extent.

! " History of Hosiery Industry in Philadelphia."-Textile Journal, March, 1883.

2 Campanius, p. 90. 3 Peuna, Mag. of History, vol. iil. p. 148. 4 Mannel of Power, pp. 22-28.

FROM THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND TO 1850.

In the new era of industrial progress which was coming, the county of Delaware occupied no second- ary position in the story of that time, but it marched abreast of the commonwealth in the movement which has resulted in placing Pennsylvania in the fore-front of manufacturing States. As early as 1810, we are told by Dr. Smith,1 an English family named Bot- tomly erected an addition to an old saw-mill on a | small stream in Concord, and converted it into a woolen factory, to the great astonishment of the people in that neighborhood. Dennis Kelley, the same au- thor informs us, with the assistance of a Mr. Wiest, about the beginning of the war, erected a small stone factory on Cobb's Creek, in Haverford, which enter- prises, owing to the embargo and the demand for goods by the national government created by the war and the want of the people generally, the factory was compelled to run night and day up to its full ca- pacity. The statement of Dr. Smith, however, does not give our county its due credit in early manufac- turing, for in Upper Darby, in 1798, Nathan and Da- vid Sellers had a cotton-mill, and, in Darby, Isaac Oakford had a fulling-mill and stamping-works. At that date John Orna was employed there as a calico- stamper and Samnel Wetherington as a calico-printer. Previous to May, 1812, Benjamin Smith and William Stedham had begun spinning and carding at William Siter's clover-mill, near the Spread Eagle Tavern, in Radnor, and advertised that they had placed a spin- ning-machine in their building "which will work for customers," and also setting forth the prices de- manded by them for their labor.

These factories were small, but the almost total prohibition of European goods had advanced the prices of American fabrics to such extravagant rates, and the profits realized to the manufacturers were so large, that it naturally stimulated men of means, de- sirons of rapidly making large fortunes, to embark in the business. The result was that cotton- and woolen- mills sprang up in all parts of New England, and quite a number were located in the Middle States. In the latter the majority were woolen-factories. The war, as usually is the case, had inflated every article in prices,-flour had advanced to ten and fifteen dol- lars a barrel, a statement also true as respected other commodities, while real estate, during the time the nation was practically shut out from the world, had doubled and in many instances quadrupled in its supposed valuation. No sooner was peace declared than the storehouses of the Old World opened, and the superior articles of European manufacture were thrown into the American market, and being offered at less prices than the actual cost of the coarsest do- mestic goods, found ready sale. The English mill- owners, pressed to meet their obligations at home, realized, even at a loss on their stock, in the vain hope of being able to withstand the pressure of a

falling market, and succeeded in merely prolonging the period of their financial ruin. But it finally came to them as it did to their American rivals.

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History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Part 24

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1150