Notice
The Unionist 1834-03-13
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Transcription
NOTICE.—The subscriber would inform all persons whom it may concern that he has purchased a right to use Lane’s patent threshing machine for seven towns, viz: Thompson, Woodstock, Pomfret, Ashford, Killingly, Hampton, and Chaplin. And he would also give information to such as may be wishing to purchase of him for either of the above towns, or for their own farms, that they will do well to apply before the 10th of February next, as the subscriber will then wish to make such arrangements for building Machines as will be necessary, according to the number that may be wanted. WM. OSGOOD.
Abington, January 13, 1834,—* 22
About this Item
Samuel Lane (d. 1844), who invented this machine, did not have much success with his thresher commercially. He came from Hallowell, Maine. Because of an 1836 fire that destroyed many patent records, this notice is one of very few records of this particular design. It likely represents patent number 5,185X (thanks to Joel R. Havens, personal communication).
These types of threshing machines were destroyed by workers opposed to automation and displacement, in the famed Swing Riots in England (1830).
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