The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . rnal side, is a grandson ofNathaniel Gregory Balch Dexter, of Pawtucket, R. Dexter was born June 25, 1788, in Grafton, Mass.;married, in November, 1808, Amey Jenckes, born in1788, in Pawtucket, R. I., daughter of JerahmeelJenckes. Mr. Dexter removed with his fathers fam-ily in 1797 to Pawtucket. He was educated by his par-ents and never attended school a day in his life. Heearly entered the counting room as a clerk to SamuelSlater, the first manufacturer of cotton yarn by ma-chinery in America. While in his employ he o
The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . rnal side, is a grandson ofNathaniel Gregory Balch Dexter, of Pawtucket, R. Dexter was born June 25, 1788, in Grafton, Mass.;married, in November, 1808, Amey Jenckes, born in1788, in Pawtucket, R. I., daughter of JerahmeelJenckes. Mr. Dexter removed with his fathers fam-ily in 1797 to Pawtucket. He was educated by his par-ents and never attended school a day in his life. Heearly entered the counting room as a clerk to SamuelSlater, the first manufacturer of cotton yarn by ma-chinery in America. While in his employ he openedthe first Sunday school in the United States, andtaught it himself. The scholars were children whoworked in the cotton mill. Captain Dexter (as he wasfamiliarly called), with the exception of a short time,about 1810, when he resided in Slatersville, was a resi-dent of Pawtucket, where he had a good estate. Formany years he was a manufacturer of cotton yarn onan extensive scale, and most of his sons and theirsons and grandsons in turn succeeded to the BIOGRAPHICAL 381 He was one of the main pillars of the Universalistdenomination in Pawtucket. He maintained throughlife the reputation of an upright, prompt and energeticman in his business, and in his civil and social rela-tions he was generous, benevolent, frank, affable andkind. He was ever active in the pursuit of some-thing. Captain Dexter died April 8, 1866. The childrenof Captain and Mrs. Dexter were: Jerahmeel J.,born in 1809: Lucy W., born in 1811, married \\il-liam Fletcher: Nathaniel, born in 1814; James Greg-ory, born in 1817; Simon Willard, born in 1S20; Dan-iel S., born in 1822; Amey, born in 1825. married Ferd-inand S. Eddy, of Providence: and Samuel Slater,born in 1827. ARNOLD BUFFUM CHACE—Three generationsof the Chace family have been the owning and managingheads of the Valley Falls Company, a cotton manufac-turing corporation of Valley Falls, R. I. The broth-ers, Harvey and Samuel B. Chace. found
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