granted by that State, in 1747, for twenty years, to
Thomas Darling, for the exclusive privilege
of making glass. This Act appears to have become void, because of
the patentee not fulfilling its conditions, and at various times after
this special grants were made to others to introduce the manufacture
of glass.
The Historical Society of Brooklyn, N.Y., has in
their cabinet "a glass bottle, the first one manufactured at a glass-works
started, in 1734, near the site of the present glass-works in State
Street. This enterprise, we are informed, was brought to an untimely end
for want of sand,-- that is, the right kind of sand." From this we infer,
it must be a flint-glass bottle, as the sand suitable for green or black
glass abounds on their shore.
Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary
struggle, we think about the year 1785, the late
Robert Hewes, a well-known citizen of Boston,
made, probably, the first attempt to establish a window-glass manufactory
on this continent. This manufactory was modelled upon the German system.
Mr. Hewes carried his works to the fuel, and erected his factory in the
then forest of New Hampshire. The writer well remembers, when a boy,
hearing Mr. Hewes
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