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John Morris Letter to Thomas Rotch Regarding Employment

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Title	John Morris Letter to Thomas Rotch Regarding Employment
Subject	Business and Labor Daily Life Laborers Wool industry
Place	Steubenville (Ohio) Jefferson County (Ohio) Massillon (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	John Morris of Steubenville wrote this letter to Thomas Rotch inquiring about conditions for employees in Rotch's woolen factory. The letter explains that although markets for wool are to be found in the Atlantic states, wages have been so reduced as to cause great hardship for the families of workmen. Morris asks if his family would be provided with basic amenities including bread, meat, firewood, and a house if he moved to Kendal (now Massillon) to work for Thomas Rotch. The letter is two pages long and measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). Thomas Rotch (1767-1823), a Quaker and early settler of Kendal, was active in the abolition movement and conducted slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. He also served as a correspondent for the Committee on Indian Concerns. The Rotch-Wales Collection comprises several thousand items, including Quaker and abolitionist materials, household remedies and recipes, weather reports and machinery plans, and personal letters of Thomas and Charity Rotch and their family. It contains personal and business correspondence, diaries, documents, accounts, ledgers, and daybooks. A large portion of the collection consists of the personal and business correspondence, documents, and business papers of Arvine Wales I (1785-1854), who accompanied Rotch from Hartford to Ohio in 1811, worked for him, and carried on Rotch's business interests after his death. The papers of his son, Arvine C. Wales (1827-1882), a lawyer and civic leader in Massillon, are also part of the collection.
Creator	Morris, John
Date of Original	January 22, 1822
Collection	Rotch-Wales Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) A-267-1 Incoming correspondence-Business
Submitting Institution	Massillon Public Library
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om225_1084965_465
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Full Text	[Page 1] [corresponds to page 1 of John Morris Letter to Thomas Rotch Regarding Employment] Steubenville January 1 1822 Mr T Roch Understanding some time ago that you wanted to employ some weavers in the spring were the undersigned wou'd probably work for you if reasonable encouredgement was given [line] Wee have had it in contemplation to recrose the mountains: because that manufacturing has revived a great deal in those parts and the differance of wages being a suffecient inducement Wee have been employ'd in the woolen factory at this place for a number of years and without any just cause of being dissatisfyed with our treatment till very latly. [line] Tho a market is found in the atlantic citys for all the clothes made here and at a good price yet our wages are so far reduced that it requirs our greatest exertion to get a mere Subsistance.

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