History of Lowell and its people . tain Joseph Bradley andJonas Varnum gave sworn testimony to the efTect that some time inJune, 1778, we heard from Persons of Veracity that Sergeant Wymanof \\oburn had sold Silas Ryal, and that the sd Silas Royal was seenin a wagon with irons on his hands between Cambridge and sd Royal crying for help, as was supposed ; But the wagon beingdrove fast, were not able to make any pursuit. Upon this intelligencewe set out in order to rescue the .sd Royal, if possible, from being senttorth as a slave, supposing this to be the Intent of the Purchaser. 94
History of Lowell and its people . tain Joseph Bradley andJonas Varnum gave sworn testimony to the efTect that some time inJune, 1778, we heard from Persons of Veracity that Sergeant Wymanof \\oburn had sold Silas Ryal, and that the sd Silas Royal was seenin a wagon with irons on his hands between Cambridge and sd Royal crying for help, as was supposed ; But the wagon beingdrove fast, were not able to make any pursuit. Upon this intelligencewe set out in order to rescue the .sd Royal, if possible, from being senttorth as a slave, supposing this to be the Intent of the Purchaser. 94 HISTORY OF LOWELL In the courts the cause of Silas Royal did not at first run just as theVarnums wanted; but finally matters were adjusted and the delightedblack man was restored to his Cld friends. He lived on as a servantin the Varnum household until after the Generals death in 1821, andwhen he passed away he was buried, at his own request in a cornerof the Varnum cemetery beside a grave that was reputed to be that ofan CHAPTER of Industrial Lowell. The transition of industr\- from a basis of handicrafts to one ofmanufacturing, of social life and customs, from a rural status toone of increasing urbanity and cosmopolitanism, began, as for theLowell district of Northeastern Massachusetts, in the period that ex-tended from the end of the Revolutionary War to 1822. Events inthese forty years did not, indeed, move so rapidly as might havetheoretically been expected toward an industrialism which wasalready established in England and which was more or less generallyforeseen as impending in the Inited States. One is struck in goingover local records of the first decades of the new Republic with thepersistence of habits of working and living which were fixed longbefore the separation from England. Politically, of course, mansways of thinking underwent a change, but otherwise people wereinclined to cling to ancient usages and devices for feeding and cloth-ing th
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