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They now run five furnaces, averaging ten pots to each, capacity of two
thousand pounds to each pot. They employ over five hundred men and boys,
and the yearly product is not less than five hundred thousand dollars.
In 1820 some of their workmen left them, built a
factory in New York City, and conducted their business under the firm of
Fisher & Gillerland. In 1823
Gillerland dissolved the connection and built,
on his own account, a manufactory in Brooklyn, N.Y., which he conducts at
this period with great skill and success, and is considered the best metal
mixer in the United States.
In 1825 a Flint-Glass Manufactory was established
by individual enterprise in Sandwich, Mass. Ground
was broke in April, dwellings for the workmen built, and manufactory
completed; and on the 4th day of July, 1825, they commenced blowing
glass-- three months from first breaking ground. In the following year
it was purchased of the proprietor, a company formed, and incorporated
under the title of Boston
and Sandwich Glass Company. Like their predecessors, they commenced in
a small way; beginning with an eight-pot furnace, each holding eight
hundred pounds. The weekly melts at that period did not exceed seven
thousand pounds, and yearly
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