Weavers

Account book of weaver David Briant, or possibly Bryant, of Worcester, MA, listing names of individuals, their debts and credits for weaving, spinning, purchases of pork, butter, tobacco, calf skins, etc. Credit is given for days of work, sheep skins, calf skins, bushels of flax seed, and use of oxen.

Contains "invoiced" accounts of number of cases of woolen goods consigned to various agents to the account to George M. Durfee. Also, record of warps woven by individually named weavers; record kept by boss weaver, Anthony Dixon for R.G. Rodman (son?) at the Durfee Mill. Warps received from Gray Stone Manufacturing Co., N. Providence and Vaughan & Green, Wakefield, R.I.; also milk accounts, possibly kept by Albro Family in Rocky Brook store

Account book with record of yarn put out, giving information on yarns, weaver, pattern, amount produced, and price paid by Young's Chestnut Hill Company; towns mentioned include Killingly, Canterbury, Pomfret and Brooklyn, CT, and Foster and Gloucester, RI.

Collection was assembled by Ernest D. Chapman of Clark's Falls, CT and of South Berwick, ME containing correspondence to Ernest D. Chapman from Harmon Goodwin (a fellow weaver) of South Berwick, ME along with weaving drafts and samples created by and/or collected by Mr. Chapman; and sixty photographs of coverlets and their patterns documented by Mr. Chapman.

Collection of payroll and pay records from an unidentified mill.

Memoirs of a weaver and loom builder, giving an account of his life from his birth in 1809 in Hillhead parish in Sorn, Scotland. The diary ends in 1889.