1830-1840 Women's Shoe Manufacturing Stampless Letters & Checks Archive, Amos Mower Shoe Factory, Lynn, MA

All items listed below are included in this archive collection of correspondence and checks to and from the Amos Mower's Shoe Manufacturing Company 1830-1839, Lynn, Massachusetts During the American Revolution, Lynn emerged as a key American city in the production of shoes.  Production boomed to meet American footwear demand due to the lack of footwear that previously had come from Great Britain1790: Lynn census: population 2,291, 300 homes, 7.65 persons per house1800: Lynn census, population 2,837.1801: March 16, birth of Amos Mower in Lynn, Massachusetts (Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the year 1849, Volume I-Births, published by the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1905, page 269.). Genealogical research shows cordwainer and tannery businesses in his family background, as well as his wife’s.1810: Population of Lynn 4,087.1814: Usher – Mechanics Bank Block is built on City Hall Square. (see Amos Mower bank drafts list)1820: Census, population of Lynn is 4,515. The 1820 census