Samuel Slater

      In 1789, Samuel Slater boarded a ship to New York from England with the goal of making a fortune in the United States.  For the last seven years Slater worked as an apprentice under Jedediah Strutt at the Cromford Mill.  Slater memorized the blue prints of the waterframe and other factory machines with the hope that he would be able to replicate them when he arrived in the United States.

     In 1790, Slater partnered with Rhode Island businessmen Moses Brown, William Almy, and Smith Brown to establish a textile mill.  Slater and his business partners chose Pawtucket located on the Blackstone River as the site for their new mill.

Here are today's class notes. 

For H.W. Answer the following questions using your notes and your Mill Village Reading.