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- catalog abstract "The Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records contain bound volumes and unbound manuscripts relating to five generations of the Hazard family's ownership and operation of a textile business located in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The collection includes financial material, production and payroll records, correspondence, family deeds and trusts, and investments and business ventures of Hazard family members. The records highlight the progression from a small textile mill to a large manufacturing company forged built on relationships made with Southern plantation owners and their desire for custom slave clothing and shoes. Within the collection are swatches of textiles in many different colors, patterns, and thickness. Included are the records of the Narragansett Pier Railroad Company, a small railway, owned and operated by the Hazard family include administrative. The bulk of the material relates to their ownership and management of the southern Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm throughout the 19th century including general accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence with firm's selling agents: S. B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885). Some of the bound volumes contain records for companies or business entities owned and operated by Hazard ancestors and their business partners. These materials were produced prior to the founding of R.G. Hazard & Co., later Peace Dale Mfg. Co. Represented in the bound volumes are Rowland Hazard I's first cousin, John Robinson, Jr. and his business partner, Peter Ayrault, both of Charleston, South Carolina. Also included is material pertaining to a store owned by Isaac Peace, Mary Peace's father; a flour mill located in Trenton, NJ, owned by Mary's grandfather, Joseph Peace; and the Hopkinton Manufacturing Co., owned by cousin Jonathan Hazard in southwestern Rhode Island. Many investment interests of the Hazard family are represented, including the Providence and Stonington and the Narragansett Pier Railroads, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad.".
- catalog contributor b753963.
- catalog coverage "Charleston (S.C.)".
- catalog coverage "Peace Dale (R.I.)".
- catalog date "1699".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00177".
- catalog description "Peace Dale Manufacturing Company Records. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.".
- catalog description "Some of the bound volumes contain records for companies or business entities owned and operated by Hazard ancestors and their business partners. These materials were produced prior to the founding of R.G. Hazard & Co., later Peace Dale Mfg. Co. Represented in the bound volumes are Rowland Hazard I's first cousin, John Robinson, Jr. and his business partner, Peter Ayrault, both of Charleston, South Carolina. Also included is material pertaining to a store owned by Isaac Peace, Mary Peace's father; a flour mill located in Trenton, NJ, owned by Mary's grandfather, Joseph Peace; and the Hopkinton Manufacturing Co., owned by cousin Jonathan Hazard in southwestern Rhode Island. Many investment interests of the Hazard family are represented, including the Providence and Stonington and the Narragansett Pier Railroads, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad.".
- catalog description "Textile manufacturing enterprise, Peace Dale, R.I. founded by Rowland Hazard in 1802 and continued under the leadership of his sons Isaac Peace Hazard, Rowland G. Hazard, and Joseph Peace Hazard. Chartered by the state of Rhode Island as the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company in 1848. The firm remained in the Hazard family until 1918, when it was sold to M. T. Stevens and Sons Company. Stevens closed the mills in 1948. In early years the firm manufactured coarse goods, including clothing for slaves on southern plantations. Later they made very fine goods, serges, worsteds, shawls, and cassimeres. Chiefly a woolen firm, although some cotton was manufactured. Some of the company's mills in Rhode Island were known as the Carolina Mills.".
- catalog description "The Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records contain bound volumes and unbound manuscripts relating to five generations of the Hazard family's ownership and operation of a textile business located in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The collection includes financial material, production and payroll records, correspondence, family deeds and trusts, and investments and business ventures of Hazard family members. The records highlight the progression from a small textile mill to a large manufacturing company forged built on relationships made with Southern plantation owners and their desire for custom slave clothing and shoes. Within the collection are swatches of textiles in many different colors, patterns, and thickness. Included are the records of the Narragansett Pier Railroad Company, a small railway, owned and operated by the Hazard family include administrative. The bulk of the material relates to their ownership and management of the southern Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm throughout the 19th century including general accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence with firm's selling agents: S. B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885).".
- catalog extent "115 linear ft.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women, Enterprise & Society. bak".
- catalog issued "1699".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Charleston (S.C.)".
- catalog spatial "Peace Dale (R.I.)".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island South Kingston (Town)".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Ayrault, Peter.".
- catalog subject "Carolina Mills.".
- catalog subject "Cotton manufacture Rhode Island.".
- catalog subject "Fairbanks and Martin.".
- catalog subject "General stores Rhode Island.".
- catalog subject "Hazard and Ayrault.".
- catalog subject "Hazard family.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Isaac Peace, 1794-1879.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, John N. (John Newbold), 1909-1995.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Joseph P.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Robinson and Company.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1801-1888.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1855-1918.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Rowland, 1763-1835.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Rowland, 1829-1898.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Rowland.".
- catalog subject "Hazard, Thomas R. (Thomas Robinson), 1797-1886.".
- catalog subject "Hopkinton Manufacturing Company.".
- catalog subject "Hughes, T. R.".
- catalog subject "Industries Rhode Island.".
- catalog subject "Jenkins and Huntington.".
- catalog subject "M. T. Stevens and Sons Company.".
- catalog subject "Manufactures Rhode Island South Kingston (Town)".
- catalog subject "Manufactures.".
- catalog subject "Marketing.".
- catalog subject "Martin, Buffum and Company.".
- catalog subject "Martin, Lawrie and Company.".
- catalog subject "Narragansett Pier railroad.".
- catalog subject "Neyle, Sampson.".
- catalog subject "Pease family.".
- catalog subject "Pease, Isaac.".
- catalog subject "Pease, Joseph.".
- catalog subject "Postal service South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "Providence and Stonington Railroad.".
- catalog subject "Railroads United States Finance.".
- catalog subject "S. B. and Buffum.".
- catalog subject "Slaves United States Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Textile industry.".
- catalog subject "Wisconsin Central Railroad.".
- catalog subject "Wool industry Rhode Island.".
- catalog title "Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records, 1699-1963 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Account books. ftamc".
- catalog type "Ledgers. ftamc".
- catalog type "Letters. ftamc".
- catalog type "collection".