United States--Silk Industry
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Connecticut Silk Industry Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC 00630
Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the silk industry in Connecticut. Includes account of silk produced in Mansfield, Connecticut during 1784-85 with a list of persons who made the silk, bounty issue to Lemuel Hotchkiss for growing mulberries and silk at New Haven, Connecticut in May 1787, and county receipts for new silk manufactured given to Solomon Barrows and Eleazer Wright in 1792.
Dates:
1786-1792
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center