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Description
Letter from a supplier in Vergennes VT sent to Nash & Goodrich, general store that was a partnership between Charles D. Nash William S. Goodrich.
In letter are two lists of goods…one for Nash & Goodrich, the other for Davenport & Nash, manufacturer of Cassimere, a closely woven smooth twilled usually wool fabric.
Vergennes July 3 1848
Messrs Nash & Goodrich
Dear Sir --- in store for you--
4 hlds sugar
1 --- molasses
1 bag coffee
1 bbl fish
10 bbls flour
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Also for Davenport & Nash
1 dry bbl
2 casks oil
3 bales Roots(?)
Mr. D. Hall W. W. Hawkins
Blue postmark '--RGENN---3 JUL VT' as well as stamped postal rate '5'
The Middlebury Manufacturing Company was chartered by the Vermont Legislature in 1835 "for manufacturing cotton and woolen goods". The company purchased a building on the west side of Otter Creek and operated until 1837, when unfavorable market conditions idled it. In 1840 Jason Davenport and Oliver P. Turner leased the building and equipment and resumed manufacturing woolen goods. Turner died in 1847 and the business continued as J. Davenport & Co. until Charles D. Nash become Davenport's partner. Davenport appears to have left the business in 1852, and it continued as Nash & Wheeler until 1854.
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