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PageTownCOUNTYNumberDescriptionReal estate, buildings & fixturesReal estate, buildings & fixtures [NOTE]Tools, machinery & apparatusTools, machinery & apparatus [NOTE]Fixed CapitalAv. stock in hand & in process of mfr.CAPITALUS Raw MaterialsU.S. Raw MaterialsUS SourcesImported Raw MaterialsImported Raw MaterialsR Ms % ImportedRaw MaterialsOutput ValueProductsMarketsWorkersMales 16+ Not BoardingMales u16 Not BoardingWomen & girls not boarding
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pp. 434-5 BOSTON Suffolk1 Brass founder and manufacturer of tin and plated ware $5,000$5,000$10,000$10,000$20,000$2,8002,500 lbs. sheet brass $2,000 2,600 lbs. old copper $800 Connecticut $12,000Tin plate $4,000, Tinned wire $4,000, Plated metal $3,000, Spelter $1,000 81%$14,800$30,000Brass and tin plated goods, c. $30,000 Mass. & other of the U.S. 3925 @ $1.50 $11,625 2 @ $0.67 $415.40 12 @ $0.50 $1,850
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pp. 432-33 BOSTON Suffolk13 balance factories, tin ware, & stoves $7,692$308$8,000$3,769$11,769$2,000100 tons Amer. iron [NY & PA], $100, lember (sic), about $3,000 [MA & ME, & NJ] NY, PA, NJ, MA, ME $2,769100 tons foreign iron, $90, copper, tin, lead, steel and brass, say total $18,000 58%$4,769$10,000Balances $55,000, Tin ware, stoves, scales, & c. 10,000 ¼ Mass. ½ southern & western states ¼ West Indies and other foreign countries 740 @ $1.50 3 @ $0.50
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pp. 380-81 DORCHESTER Norfolk1 Tin ware $3,300$1,450$4,750$5,500$10,250$3,000Iron, &c. $3,000 Penn. & N.Y. $33,000Sheet and block tin and iron ware $33,000 92%$36,000$52,000Tin ware $52,000 New England and New Orleans 3934 @ $1.25 5 @ $0.50
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pp. 354-5 SOUTH READING Middlesex1
Tin-plate working, begun in 1805, also com. working block tin in 1831; Burrage Yale, proprietor
$8,000“”Power: tin plate by h’d [hand] with mach. [machinery], block tin by animal.” $2,000“Thirty five horses used in transporting ware to a market,$75 each” [$2,625]$10,000$10,000$1,0657,500 lbs. iron wire, a 11 cts. per lb. 3,000 lbs. sheet iron, at 8 cents for thin qualities.” “Manufactured in New York Pennsylvania & Maryland” $9,0151500 boxes tin-plate $1,500, 7,500 lbs. iron wire, at 11 cts. per lb. 40,000 lbs. block tin, at 15½ cts. per lb. 7,000 lbs. sheet iron, at 7 cts. thin qual.” 89%$10,080“All kinds of ware for household and ships’ use, made of tin plates and block tin” 2/3 in Mass. 1/6 N.H. 1/6 R.I. 5555 @ $1.08 inc. board
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pp. 314-5 CHARLESTOWN Middlesex1 Tin-ware $5,000$800$5,800$2,000$7,800$74300 lbs. sheet iron $24 [Philadelphia], Glass $50 [Cambridge] Philadelphia, Cambridge $2,765150 boxes tin plate $2,100, 1,000 lbs. wire $125, 7,000 lbs. sheet iron $490, 300 lbs. pewter $50 97%$2,839$10,000Tin & sheet-iron ware $10,000 Massachusetts 88 @ $1.25
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pp. 246-47 NEWBURYPORT Essex1 Copper, brass, tin & sheet iron ware $1,500$800$2,300$5,000$7,300$5006 tons Cast Iron $500 Mass. & Maine $3,277
6 ton English sheet iron $870, 1.5 tons Russian sheet iron $412, 20 boxes tin $170, 3 tons old copper $1,080, 1 ton English sheathing copper $500, 500 lbs. cast steel $95, 500 old cast files $75,Black lead pots, English $75
87%$3,777$1,100Stoves, funnels, &c. $600, Various tin ware $500, Various kinds of ship work, such as spikes, rudder braces, copper bolts, &c. Massachusetts 108 @ $1 2 @ $0.50
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pp. 344-45 MALDEN Middlesex1 Tin manufactory $2,450$1,100$3,550$3,500$7,050$1,5962,970 lbs. wire $325, 4,600 lbs. sheet iron $353 [Philadelphia], 200 lb. American copper $48 [Mass.], 7,000 lbs. cast iron $310 [Boston], 1,000 lbs Amer. lead $60 [Louisiana], Glass $500 [Mass.]  Philadelphia, Massachusetts, Boston, Louisiana $8,197750 boxes tinplate $7,500, 7,500 lbs. English sheet iron $525, 800 lbs. Russia do. $100, 300 lbs. Eng. copper $72 84%$9,793$25,000$25,000 “1/2 in Mass. residue in New England”2828 @ $0.75
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pp. 310-11 NORTHAMPTON Hampshire1 Tin ware and stove pipe; Geo. Pierce “Capital $5,000” $5,000“English tin, Russia iron, American lead” “Half of materials American” 50%$2,000$2,000 “All in the vicinity” 22 @ $1.25
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pp. 220-21 HAVERHILL Essex1 Tinware  $2,000$1,200$3,200$1,000$4,200$200“Various” $200 “N.E. States” $1,080Tin $600, Brass $200, Copper & Iron $280 84%$1,280$3,208 “All in Mass. and N. Hampshire” 5 3 @ $1.082 @ 50c.
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pp. 570-71 WORCESTER Worcester2 Caleb Newcomb & Co & Rice & Miller, tin plate, sheet iron and copper workers $1,800$500$2,300$900$3,200$435800 lbs copper at 25c $200 Charcoal $50 Sperm oil $60 Solder $125, total $435 $4,503165 boxes tin at 10 dolls $1,650 15 tons English sheet iron $2,100 2,500 lbs English wire $312.50 2 tons Russia sheet iron $440, total $4502.5 91%$4,938$8,950“17 tons sheet iron manufact’d into stoves stove furniture & stove pipe $4,700 Tin cylinders for cotton and woollen machinery $750 Copper & tin ware $3,500” total $8,950 Massachusetts 21 @ $1.50, $465 4 at 6s 9d, $1,395 1 @ $0.5, $155 total $2,015
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pp. 240-41 MARBLEHEAD Essex1 Tinware factory, Daniel Weed $1,700$700$2,400$500$2,900$1,925English Tin $1,825, English Wire $100 100%$1,925$3,000$3,000 “All in Mass.” 3 2 @ $1.001 @ 50c.
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pp. 132-3 PITTSFIELD Berkshire2 Tin factories, Peck & Platt  $500$600$1,100$1,200$2,300$615Sheet iron $450, Wire $125, Copper $40 New York $1,950150 boxes tin $1,500, Russia iron $450 76%$2,565$4,900Tin manufact’d into var. articles $4,900 ⅔ New England ⅓ New York 1111 @ $0.90
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pp. 140-41 LENOXBerkshire1Tin factory -- O. Peck  $800$300$1,100$1,000$2,100$2,070120 boxes tin, $1,320, Sheet iron, copper, and wire $750 New York 0%$2,070$4,000“Various articles manufactured of tin, &c.” $4,000 Mass. & N. York 1010 @ $0.83
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pp. 104-5 BREWSTER Barnstable1 Manufacture of plated ware, copper, tin, &c., 1825, Josiah Foster  $150$600$750$1,000$1,750$2350 bushels charcoal $10, 1.5 cords wood $13 Massachusetts $83530 lbs. silver plate $34, 1,000 lb. sheet copper $270, 1 ton sheet iron ⅓ English ⅔ Russian $260, 12 boxes tin plate $180, 300 lbs. iron wire $36, 100 lbs. old brass $15, 200 lbs. solder $30, Rivets, rosin, &c., $10 97%$858$1,768
24 dozen silver plated carriage lamps $600, 24 dozen polished tin coffee urns $240, 12 dozen meeting house lamps $288, Common tin ware $200, 2 W.I. (Wrought Iron) fire frames $140, Funnel, &c. $300
90% Massachusetts, 10% New York 1.51.5 @ $1.75
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pp. 150-51 ADAMS Berkshire2tin-workers $800$600$1,400$300$1,700$94575 boxes tin $750, Iron $75, Wire $80, Copper $40 New York $225Russia iron $150, English iron $75 19%$1,170$2,500“Articles manufactured from tin, copper, &c.,” $2500 New England & New York 66 @ $1
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pp. 550-51 TEMPLETON Worcester1 Jno. Boynton, tin, plate, and sheet iron worker $500$200$700$500$1,200$3,500Boxes tin plate $3,000, Iron wire $250, Sheet Iron $250 100%$3,500$9,000Tin ware and stove funnel $9,000 New England States 1413 @ $1 $4,030 1 @ $0.40 $124
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pp. 168-69 FALL RIVERBristol1 Manufacture of tin ware and stove pipe, 1825 [Thomas Wilcox]  $200$200“Capital $1,000” $1,000$400Sheet Iron $1,600$1,200 worth of tin plate, $800 sheet iron, about half of the latter is American 80%$2,000$3,000Tin ware and stove pipe $3,000 “Sold here” 22 @ $1.25
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pp. 218-9 DANVERS Essex1 Tin plate workers  $500$150$650$300$950“Materials foreign” 100%$1,200“in vicinity” 22 @ $1
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pp. 226-27 LYNN Essex1 Tin work [Willard Harding]  $2001 horse $200$500$700$2,000Sheet iron $900, Sheet tin $1,100 100%$2,000$3,600“Stoves and tin ware” $3,600 “Lynn and vicinity” 33 @ $1
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pp. 278-9 GREENFIELD Franklin1 Tin & sheet iron, John J. Pierce, 1812 -- $1,500 $200$200$300$500$300Lead $300 “Purchased at Hartford & N.Y. generally” $815Tin plate $250, English sheet iron $300, Russia do. $140, English wire $25, block tin $100 73%$1,115$2,500Tin & sheet iron ware $2500 -- “both branches are so connected as not to be easily distinguished in quantity” “All, or nearly all in the county of Franklin” 22 @ $1.25
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pp. 100-01 YARMOUTHBarnstable1Tin  ware (1823) $200$20Horse & Wagon, $100$320$100$420$25Lead & Wire $25 $26020 boxes tin plate, $210; 40 sheet iron, pewter, $50 91%$285$1,000 Tin ware, funnel & stoves $1,000 Massachusetts 1.50.5 @ $1.25 p. 102 “A man is employed, in addition, to sell the ware, at an expense of $35 per month, for six months.”
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pp. 364-65 WOBURN Middlesex1 Tin plate & sheet iron $200$75$275$100$375$20200lb. sheet iron $15 [Phila.], 100 lb. lead [Louisiana] $5 Philadelphia, Louisiana $316100 lb. wire $15, 20 boxes tin plate $220, 25 lb. Block tin $6, 1,000 lb. sheet iron $75 94%$336$875Tin ware $700, Sheet iron, stoves, and funnels $125, Other work $50 Woburn 11 @ $1
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pp. 310-11 NORTHAMPTON Hampshire1 Tin ware and stove pipe; George Bennett $50$50“English tin, Russia iron, American lead” “Half of materials American” 50%$400$400
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p. 302 WARE Hampshire1Sheet Iron and Tin Ware$3,500Sheet iron and tin ware, $3,500
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pp. 160-61 TAUNTON Bristol1 Tin ware $1,000Tin ware $1,000 2
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TOTAL28$42,292$16,803$59,195$37,519$102,514$16,068$90,032$106,100$184,501252