1801. — A mill built rear Boston, Mass. 



1802. — Water mill with Arkwriglit machinery built at Beverly, Mass. Bandanna 

 cloths first made at Glasgow, Scotland. 



1803. — First cotton mill built in New Hampshire. A duty of lOs. 6d. a pound 

 imposed in Great Britain on raw cotton imported. 



1804. — Kcmarkable ravages made by the cotton worm. 



1805. — Sea-island cotton sold for 25 cents a pound more than upland. Another 

 mill built in Rhode Island. 



180G. — Mexican or ''Petit Gulf" seed introduced into Mississippi. Two cotton 

 mills built in Connecticut. A power loom built in New Hampshire. Nine mills, 

 with 11,000 spindles, in operation in Rhode Island. 



1801 . — Cotton manufacturing begun in Maine. This year 15 mills in operation in 

 the United States, producing about 300,000 pounds of yarn per year. Cotton mill 

 built in Maryland. 



1808. — First cotton mill built in New York. New Hampshire legislature exempts 

 all cotton mills from taxation. The embargo on American commerce greatly reduces 

 our exports. Cotton manufacturing begun in South Carolina. 



1809. — In the United States there were about 87 mills, with 80,000 spindles, viz: 

 1 in Maine, 6 in New Hampshire, 15 in Massachusetts, 25 in Rhode Island, 7 in Con- 

 necticut, 4 in Vermont, 6 in New York, 2 in New Jersey, 4 in Pennsylvania, 1 in 

 Delaware, 5 in Maryland, 1 in Virginia, 1 in South Carolina, 1 in Georgia, 1 in Ohio, 

 6 in Kentucky, 1 in Tennessee; estimated capital, $4,800,000. Forty-eight of these 

 were water-power and the remainder horse-power mills. 



1810. — The number of mills increased to 102. 



Prices. — It will be noticed in Table II that the demand for cotton during the 

 decade was sufficient to maintain high prices. The highest average price in Liver- 

 pool was in 1808, when the crop in the United States was much smaller than that of 

 the three previous years, and when the surplus stocks in Great Britain had been 

 reduced far below those of any year during the decade. 



Table III. — Showing supply and consumption of cotton in the United States and Great 

 Britain — surplus stocks and average prices. 



[In bales.] 



'The exports from Great Britain not included ; hence the apparent discrepancy in the amounts of 

 surplus stocks. 



1811. — Machinery for making cotton lace patented. Steamboats introduced on 

 the Mississippi River. 



1812. — War with England gives great stimulus to manufacturing in the United 

 States. 



1813. — First mill with power loom built at Waltham, Mass. The war with Eng- 

 land results in a great reduction of exports this year and the year following. 



