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French River Textile Company Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Mechanicsville, Connecticut
Records, 1897-1928 Size: 15 ft. Catalog number: MSS 6 sg 12 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, Jr., August 1977 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
The French River Textile Company was incorporated first in Rhode Island in 1897 by Frank A. Sayles, Alfred M. Coats, John Simson, and James B. Kirkaldy. Although the mill itself was located in Mechanicville, the business seat was in the Slater Trust Company in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. A charter of incorporation was granted in September, 1916, by the State of Connecticut to Charles O. Read, Andrew E. Jencks, and Edward E. Dodge, all officers of the company in Rhode Island. Frank A. Sayles was the principal shareholder and was president of the company until his death in 1920.
Like most large textile companies, French River maintained a sales office in New York City. The company also owned and operated the French River Inn and the Sayles Farm, both of which were also located in Mechanicsville and were run as adjuncts of the mill. The mill was sold in 1920, with other properties, to meet state and federal tax liabilities arising on the death of F.A. Sayles. The inn and the farm were sold, along with some inventory goods, in April 1923, to the Beachmont Worsted Company of Guerin Mills, Inc., of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Remaining assets after the sales were assigned to the TARSCO Corporation of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Bibliography:
Rhode Island Historical Society, Manuscript Collections. Inventories of record group MS 6, Sayles Finishing Plants, sub-groups 1, 3, 12A, 12B, and 33.
Scope and content:
The records in this sub-group reflect manufacturing costs, sales, and finances of a Rhode Island and Connecticut firm manufacturing worsted cloth, silk cloth, cotton cloth, remnants and waste. The mill also sold water-generated electric power to the Putnam Light & Power Company, serving communities in northeast Connecticut.
Provenance:
This collection was a gift from the Sayles Finishing Plants on 25 December 1971.
Processing note:
Inventory:
Company Record
Item 1. Minutes, by-laws, etc. Nov 1897 - Jun 1928
Stock Register
Item 2. Capital stock issued Dec 1897 - Mar 1915
Item 3. Common and preferred Nov 1917 - May 1922
stock issued
Abstract Balance Sheets
Item 4. Sep 1903 - Sep 1906
Trial Balance - Profit and Loss - Annual Reports
Item 5. Feb 1911 - Sep 1912
Item 6. Dec 1912 - Mar 1913
Item 7. Dec 1917 - Jun 1921
Journal
Item 8. May 1905 - Jan 1915
Item 9. Dec 1913 - Nov 1915
Item 10. Feb 1915 - Jun 1917
Item 11. Jul 1917 - Dec 1917
Journal Voucher
Item 12. Jul - Dec 1918
Item 13. Jan - Dec 1919
Item 14. Jan - Dec 1920
Item 15. Jan - Dec 1921
Item 16. Jan 1922 - Dec 1923
Ledgers
Item 17. Book A Dec 1897 - Jun 1903
Item 18. Book B Jul 1903 - Aug 1904
Item 19. Aug 1904 - Aug 1911
Item 20. Jan 1909 - Apr 1911
Item 21. Transfer Ledger #1 Oct 1911 - Dec 1918
Item 22. Current Ledger #2 Jan - Dec 1919
Item 23. General Ledger Jan - Dec 1920
Item 24. General Ledger Jan - Dec 1921
Item 25. Jan 1922 - Dec 1923
Item 26. Transfer Ledger Sep 1910 - Jun 1906
Cash Records
Item 27. Jan 1907 - Jan 1909
Item 28. Jul 1911 - Feb 1916
Item 29. May 1914 - Feb 1916
Item 30. Cash Transfer Mar 1916 - Dec 1919
Item 31. Dec 1919 - Dec 1921
Item 32. Jan 1922 - Dec 1923
Journal Cash
Item 33. Book A - Mechanicsville Dec 1897 - Oct 1901
Item 34. Book B - Mechanicsville Nov 1901 - Mar 1904
Item 35. Book C - Mechanicsville Apr 1904 - Aug 1905
Petty Cash Disbursements - New York Office
Item 36. Sep 1919 - Oct 1921
Item 37. Nov 1921 - Jun 1923
Transfer Cloth Sales Credits - Mechanicsville
Item 38. Nov 1916 - Dec 1918
Transfer Miscellaneous Invoices
Item 39. Jan 1913 - Jun 1915
Miscellaneous Credit Bills - Mechanicsville
Item 40. Dec 1916 - Dec 1918
Item 41. Jan-Dec 1919
Item 42. Jan-Dec 1920
Item 43. Jan-Dec 1921
Item 44. Jan-Dec 1922
Credit Bills
Item 45. Mechanicsville Jan-Dec 1919
Item 46. Miscellaneous assigned to Jan-Dec 1923
TARSCO Corp.
Cloth Credits
Item 47. Mechanicsville Jan-Dec 1920
Item 48. Mechanicsville Jan-Jul 1921
Item 49. Mechanicsville Aug-Dec 1921
Item 50. Mechanicsville Jan-Jun 1922
Item 51. Mechanicsville Jan-Jun 1923
Item 52. Pawtucket Jul 1923 - Feb 1925
Voucher Register
Item 53. Including analysis of payrolls, etc. Jan 1916 - Dec 1918
Item 54. Including analyses of earlier years Jan 1919 - Mar 1920
Item 55. Apr 1920 - Dec 1922
Item 56. Jan-Dec 1923
Check Register
Item 57. Re payment of loans May 1922 - Nov 1933
Miscellaneous Charges
Item 58. Jul 1915 - Dec 1916
Item 59. Jan 1916 - Dec 1918
Item 60. Jan-Dec 1919
Item 61. Jan-Dec 1920
Item 62. Jan-Dec 1921
Miscellaneous Sales
Item 63. Jan-Feb 1922
Item 64. Jan 1923 - Apr 1924
Annual Reports to the State of Connecticut
Item 65. Domestic and foreign Mar 1918
Inventories and Appraisals - mostly from Mechanicsville, including the French
River Inn.
Item 69. Appraisal Jan 1913
Item 66. Jan 1913, 1916 - 1919
Item 70. Jan 1917 - Jun 1919, Jan-Mar 1920,
Jul 1920, Jan 1921, Jul 1921, Dec 1921
Item 67. Jul 1922, Apr 1923, Dec 1923
Item 68. Segregation of Cloth in Process Apr 1923
between Beachmont Worsted Co.
and French River Textile Co.
Subjects:
Beachmont Worsted Company.
Business records - Connecticut - Mechanicsville.
Business records - Rhode Island - Pawtucket.
Coats, Alfred M.
Dodge, Edward E.
French River Inn.
Guerin Mills.
Jencks, Andrew Edmund, 1871-1928.
Kirkaldy, James B.
Read, Charles Otis, 1846-1926.
Sayles Farm.
Sayles Finishing Plants.
Sayles, Frank Arthur, 1866-1920.
Simson, John.
Textile industry - Connecticut - Mechanicsville.
Textile industry - Rhode Island - Pawtucket.
Wool industry - Connecticut - Mechanicsville.
Wool industry - Rhode Island - Pawtucket.
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