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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ade the principal officer.In 1792, when this spot was selected,there were not more than ten houses inthe place, which was named in honorof Governor William Paterson. Majori LEnfan was appointed engineer, andI began to cut the race on a scale unne-I cessary large and expensive, and resign-ed in a short time. He was succeededI by Mr. Colt, who adopted a more eco-I nomical plan ; and tlio first factory was: completed in 1794. It was ninety byI forty feet, and four stories high ; andI yarn was spun in it that year by water.The year preceding, the operation hadbeen performed by ox-power. In 1794,• calico-printing was done, on unbleachedmuslins purchased in New York. Tliei society at the same time directed thesuperintendent to plant mulberry-trees ;i and, at the proposal of Mr. Colt, a teach-er was employed to instruct the work-children gratuitously on the sabbath.I This was, no doubt, the first sabbath-! school in the state, if not in the Union.1 It differed, however, from our common w o
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214 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. sabUath-schools, in being taught by aliiied teiiclier. In 1796, in conseciuciiceof losses of money sent to England formachinery, the misconduct and igno-rance of foreign workmen, and tlic nov-elty of the undertaking, the companyfailed ; a-nd the building was leased, andused for spinning candlewick and yarn,until it was burnt, in 1807. In 1814,Mr. Roswell L. Colt, son of tlie gentle-man above-named, purchased the sharesand revived the company; and the placelias long been one of the most flourishingmanufacturing towns in this country,though it suffered a great and unavoida-ble interruj)tion after the war of 1812.The suj)ply of watm- is very valuable,and has been enlarged by a dam, four anda half feet high, erected on the top of thefall ; and the water is distributed bythree short canals, at different elevations.The Passaic is navigable for sloops ; andit not only has good common roads, butthe Morris canal, and a railroad to Jer-sey city. MoRiu

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