356 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1826. 



them wantonly stabbed him in the abdomen with a shoemaker's 

 knife, which caused his immediate death. Besides committing 

 the murder the party plundered the house. Three men were 

 arrested and tried for the homicide ; Michael Monroe, alias James 

 Wellington, was convicted of murder in the first degree and ex- 

 ecuted ; Washington Labbe was convicted of murder in the se- 

 cond degree, and Abraham Buys was acquitted. 



After the close of the war with Great Britain, manufacturing 

 establishments, of various kinds, rapidly sprung up over the 

 County. It became an object of interest to ascertain the extent 

 of these improvements, and also to obtain more particular infor- 

 mation in respect to unimproved water-power. For this purpose 

 George G. Leiper, John Willcox and William Martin, Esqs., 

 were appointed a committee, who employed Benjamin Pearson, 

 Esq., to travel over the County and obtain the necessary statis- 

 tics. From the facts reported by Mr. Pearson, the committee 

 make the following summary: 



Thirty-eight flour mills, sixteen of which grind 203,600 bushels 

 of grain per annum. 



Fifty-three saw mills, sixteen of which cut 1,717,000 feet of 

 lumber per annum. 



Five rolling and slitting mills, which roll 700 tons of sheet 

 iron per annum, value, $105,000 ; employ thirty hands, wages, 

 $7,200. 



Fourteen woolen factories, employ 228 hands. 



Twelve cotton factories, manufacture 704,380 lbs. of yarn per 

 annum, value, $232,445 ; employ 415 hands, wages, 151,380. 



Eleven paper mills, manufacture 31,296 reams of paper per 

 annum, value, $114,712; employ 215 hands, wages, $29,120. 



Two powder mills, manufacture 11,900 quarter casks per 

 annum, value, $47,600 ; employ forty hands, wages, $12,000. 



One nail factory, manufactures 150 tons of nails per annum, 

 value, $:i0,000; employ eight hands, wages, $2,400. 



Four tilt, blade and edge-tool manufactories, two of which 

 manufacture, per annum, 2000 axes, 200 cleavers, 1,200 dozen 

 shovels, 200 doz. scythes and 500 drawing knives. 



One power-loom mill, weaves 30,000 yards per week, $3,000 ; 

 employs 120 hands, wages, per week, $500 ; 200 looms. 



Two oil mills, make 7000 galls, linseed oil per annum, value, 

 $7,000. 



One machine factory, five snufi" mills, two plaster or gypsum 

 mills, three clover mills, three bark mills, and one mill for saw- 

 ing stone — making, in the aggregate, 158 improved mill seats, 

 and forty-two unimproved on the principal streams. Total mill 

 seats 200. 



These returns, though in several branches of small account 



