. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . on Plot in New York in 1776 : aLetter of Dr. William Eustis, Surgeon in the Revo-lutionary Army and late Governor of Massachu-setts, with Notes (Boston, 1868); Memorial ofJohn Slafter, with • Genealogical Account of hisDescendants (1868); The Charter of Norwich,Vermont, and Names of the Original Proprietors:with Brief Historical Notes (1869); The Ver-mont Coinage, Vermont historical society collec-tion (Montpelier, 1870); Sir William Alexanderand American Colonization, in the series of thePrince society (Boston, 1873); The Copper Coin-age of the
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . on Plot in New York in 1776 : aLetter of Dr. William Eustis, Surgeon in the Revo-lutionary Army and late Governor of Massachu-setts, with Notes (Boston, 1868); Memorial ofJohn Slafter, with • Genealogical Account of hisDescendants (1868); The Charter of Norwich,Vermont, and Names of the Original Proprietors:with Brief Historical Notes (1869); The Ver-mont Coinage, Vermont historical society collec-tion (Montpelier, 1870); Sir William Alexanderand American Colonization, in the series of thePrince society (Boston, 1873); The Copper Coin-age of the Earl of Stirling. 1632 (1874); Voy-ages of the Northmen to America, edited, withan introduction (1877): Voyages of Samuel deChamplain, translated from the French by CharlesPomeroy Otis, with historical illustrations and amemoir (3 vols., 1878, 1880. 1882); and Historyand Causes of the Incorrect Latitudes as recordedin the Journals of the Early Writers, Navigators,and Explorers relating to the Atlantic Coast ofNorth America, 1535-1740 (1882).. SLATER, Samuel, manufacturer, b. in Belper,Derbyshire. England, 9 June, 1768; d. in Webster,Mass. 21 April! 1835. He was the son of a respect-able yeoman, received a good education, and servedan apprenticeship at cotton-spinning with partner of Richard Arkwright. Hewas a favorite withMr. Strtitt. aidedhim in making im-provements in hismills, and gained athorough mastery ofthe theory and prac-tice of the new man-ufacture. In 1789congress passed itsfirst act for theencouragement ofmanufactures, andthe legislature ofPennsylvania of-fered a bounty forthe introduction ofthe Arkwright pat-ent. Young Slaterbecame cognizant ofthese circumstan-ces, and determined to introduce the invention inthe United States; but, as the laws of England didnot admit of his taking drawings or models withhim, he had to trust to his memory to enable him toconstruct the most complicated machinery. Helanded in New York in November, 1789, and, hav
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