History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . lett and sold with them to O. F. Chase & Co., from whom itpassed, in Nov., 1885, to Edwin Bartlett, who is, 1890, ]) 1867 this mill was run on cotton sheetings ; at that date a change 1 Honjiimlu CniKl may have been Interested In gate. In 1831 lie with Nathiin Appletou and the busluuss. Mr. Bradford G. Edson, who Is another formed a company for oporiitions at good authority, ways the tlrst man to start a WaUham, and soon bcKanspinnlnK and weaving, power loom In Oxford was Richard Ro
History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts, with genealogies and notes on persons and estates . lett and sold with them to O. F. Chase & Co., from whom itpassed, in Nov., 1885, to Edwin Bartlett, who is, 1890, ]) 1867 this mill was run on cotton sheetings ; at that date a change 1 Honjiimlu CniKl may have been Interested In gate. In 1831 lie with Nathiin Appletou and the busluuss. Mr. Bradford G. Edson, who Is another formed a company for oporiitions at good authority, ways the tlrst man to start a WaUham, and soon bcKanspinnlnK and weaving, power loom In Oxford was Richard Robinson, The c;-a;;A-lo<mi, superior to tliat used by Lowell, an KnKllshmau, whom ho well rememl)ers. We was a Scotch Invention introduced in Rhode nnd no trace of him In the records: he may have Island by William (illmore under the patronage been foreman for Andrews. of Judge Lyman In 1S17. It came thence into A power loom was invented In England in 1785. this vicinity, and, as appears, to Oxford through In ISll Francis C. Lowell went thither to invesll- Douglas, or men from that oO o O ROCKDALE MILL. 205 was made and the capacity incieased to 3,300 spindles and preparatorymachinery, and now produces satinet warps and cotton yarns, exclu-sively, employing 40 hands. Rockdale Mill. The Oxford Cotton Manufacturing Companywas the second legalized concern in Oxford for manufacturing pur-poses. ^ On 28 Dec, 1814, the privilege, 16 acres with water-power,was bought of Joseph Stone, it being the upper portion of the AaronSibley grist-mill property. On 13 June, 1815, an act was passedincorporating the company, as follows : Charles Cleaveland, JacobRich of Charlton, Joseph Stone, William P. Rider of Charlton,Sylvauus Coburn, Jonathan Rice, Benjamin Eddy, Samuel Watson,2d, of Leicester, Israel Stone, Jr., of Ward, Thaddeus Hall, SylvesterMclntire, Elijah Waters of Millburj^ Jeremiah Stone, William Hallof Northbridge and Elijah Rich. Samuel Harris, Benjamin Benson,and Joseph Farn
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