Alexander Hamilton Papers

Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 30 August 1791

[Enclosure]
Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester20

Norwich [Connecticut] 30th Augt 1791

Dear Sir

Since forwarding Statement of Manufactories have discoverd an Omission of the Manufactoring of Carding Machines and Jennys for Carding & Spinning on the large Scale. Those in Mr Lathrops works21 were wholly made here by an Inhabitant of this Town who is a Great Mechanical Genius. Machines for Cutting doubling & Crooking Card wire for making Common Cotton & Wool Cards are also made in this Town. Those at Philadelphia & Several in Boston were made by a Nathan Cobb of this place.

I am your most Obed sert

Chrisr Leffingwell

Colo Chester

20. ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

21. This is a reference to the cotton manufactory established at Norwich in 1790 by Dr. Joshua Lathrop and Cushing Eells.

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    Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 30 August 1791
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    Leffingwell, Christopher
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    Chester, John
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    30 August 1791

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    “Enclosure: Christopher Leffingwell to John Chester, 30 August 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-09-02-0264-0007. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 9, August 1791 – December 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, p. 332.]

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