. The history of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878 . ds & Son, proprietors. Capital, $150, Richards, president; S. M. Richards, superintendent;A. B. Chase, clerk. Employs eighty-five operatives. Runeight sets cards, Francis Foote, overseer; forty-four narrowlooms, B. F. Peasley, overseer; fifteen spinning-machines, Ingram, overseer; coloring and finishing, Patrick Herrick,overseer. Manufacture 900,000 yards gray twilled flannels an-nually ; use 280,000 pounds cotton and wool. Selling agents,Lewis Brothers & Co., Boston, New York, and mark, D. R. P. In
. The history of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878 . ds & Son, proprietors. Capital, $150, Richards, president; S. M. Richards, superintendent;A. B. Chase, clerk. Employs eighty-five operatives. Runeight sets cards, Francis Foote, overseer; forty-four narrowlooms, B. F. Peasley, overseer; fifteen spinning-machines, Ingram, overseer; coloring and finishing, Patrick Herrick,overseer. Manufacture 900,000 yards gray twilled flannels an-nually ; use 280,000 pounds cotton and wool. Selling agents,Lewis Brothers & Co., Boston, New York, and mark, D. R. P. In this mill eleven hours constitute adays work. The Granite State Mills were built in 1867 by PerleyS. Coffin and William Nourse, and have always been occupiedas a-woollen manufactory. They employed, in 1870, as by census, forty hands, wages, $iS,ooo; used 266,000 poundsof wool and cotton; and produced $600,000 yards of blue-mixed twilled flannels annually. They used 700 cords of woodand $20,000 worth of dyestuff. In 1876, this mill was enlarged. SUGAR RIVER MILLS. MANUFACTORIES. 93 to more than twice its formal- capacity. It now (1878) era-ploys 100 operatives, uses 45,000 pounds raw stuff per month,has nine sets of cards and forty-eight looms, and manufactures30,000 yards seventy-two inch skirting and i5)000 yards flan-nels per month. CHAPTEE XTII. OTHER MANUFACTURES, AND ARTISANS. I ^HE following is a list of the other principal manufactures,-- and the artisans who have lived and practised their vari-ous trades in town, so far as ascertained, given as nearly as maybe in the order of time in which they operated. Bakers. Mr. C. Boyle had a bakery for a short time at thebuilding now occupied by the Fairbanks & Royce store, com-mencing in 1832. Muzzey & Carr, the present operators, com-menced here in i877 Previously tlie public wants in thisdirection had been supplied by the bakers at Keene, Clare-mont, Hanover, and St. Johnsbury, Vt. Barbers. Elkanah C. Sweet established the
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