The Carding Mill

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 694
Date : 6 novembre 1833
Lease by Otis Warren, Wool Carder of the Township of Stanstead, to Harris Way, Clothier of the same Township.

Résumé : Location du Moulin à carder pour cinq ans, pour la somme de 6 pounds 5 shillings par année : « Right and privilege of Carding Wool in the upper part or story of the East half of a certain wooden building situate upon Lot number one in the ninth range of Stanstead aforesaid at the head of the Canal, being the same now or lately by the said Otis Warren used for the purpose of carding wool […] with the right of drawing water from the said canal […] ».

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 695
Date : 6 novembre 1833
Sale of Machinery by Otis Warren, Wool Carder of the Township of Stanstead, to Harris Way, Clothier of the same Township.

Résumé : Vente de la machinerie nécessaire au fonctionnement du Moulin à carder, pour la somme de 87 pounds 10 shillings (voir # 694).

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 6225
Date : 31 août 1857
Lease by John C. Butterfield, Carpenter and Joiner of the Township of Stanstead, to Louis Boulanger and Louis Maheux, Carpenters and Joiners of the same place.

Résumé : Location, pour un terme d’un an (à partir de la date de l’acte) et la somme de 110 dollars (en deux paiements semi-annuels égaux), d’un espace dans une fabrique de Rock Island (lot no 1 du 9e rang), décrit ainsi : «…the lower floor or rooms in the Old Carding building on Rock Island […], now owned by David White and which the said Lessor now holds in Common with one Charles W. Drew, together with the Room which the said Lessor heretofore occupied on the upper floor of said building, and also the use of the paint shop in the upper part of said building, and also all the machinery and apparatus belonging to the said Lessor and which he heretofore held in Common with the said Charles W. Drew, with the exception of a Bead Lathe, now in said building, with the first privilege of Water in the joiners shop […] ».

Partnership with David Wilkey in 1862 as general merchants in the Mellon Store
Cass replaced Wilkey
Hall and Jondro manufactured boots and shoes in 1872 in the old carding machine building
Partnership with Goodhue until 1894
Jondro continued alone, Goodhue manufactured overalls in the carding machine building

Rock Island had successively saw mills, carding mills, a paper mill by 1832; a shoe factory by 1840 and then a foundry.

In 1815, Otis Warren built a large shop, using the water power from the canal, and carried on for many years an extensive business in wool carding, and in the manufacture of various kinds of machinery required in the settlements. Mr. Warren sold to Harris Way in 1837 and removed to Montreal. (p. 33)