Smithsonian Report, 1959—Welsh 
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PLATE 4 
THOMAS REYNOLDS, 
Rejpeotfully returns his thanks to the Public 
Jor their former yavours, and informs them, 
that he cai ries on the 
Smiths’ Bufinefs, at Brandywine 
Niills, 
In a more extenfive manner than formerly, 
He continues to make and repair Screws for 
raifing millftones, packing flour and tabacco, 
jor timber wheels, and Fuilers aad Printers 
preffes. 
Brards and Stamps in ecpper, iron and 
Steel, cut in the neatest manner. 
Orders from any part of the continent will 
be thankfully received, and carefuily attended 
to. . 
March 18, 1798. 
1. Despite mechanization, work was provided for scores of individuals including millers, 
millwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, and shallopmen. 
This blacksmith’s advertisement 
appeared in the Delaware Gazette, March 20, 1790. (Historical Society of Delaware.) 
2. “Small craft, of apparently about ten or fifteen tons came directly alongside the mills” 
wrote Thomas Twining, but “sloops of a much larger size could mount the stream.” ‘This 
copper-plate engraving by an unknown engraver was done ca. 1804. It is one of several 
showing Wilmington’s important “‘public” buildings. 
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Delaware.) 
(Copper-plate; Historical Society of 
