Providence, Rhode Island Newspaper Data

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Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 16 1824
Riot At Pawtucket
We learn from the Providence Journal, that in consequence of a resolution adopted on Monday, the 24th of May, at a meeting of the manufacturers, to reduce the wages of those who worked by the piece, about 20 per cent, and to require the mills to run an hour longer each day, the workmen and women came to a resolution to abandon their work. At a meeting of the female weavers, a hundred and two women were present.

On Wednesday evening the workmen and others assembled in a tumultuous manner, visited the houses of the manufacturers shouting and uttering insulting language and broke a window in one of the mills. No great damage however was done. The next day the mills were stopped and did not run for some days. The disturbance has, however, since subsided, and the mills are again in operation.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
September 1 1824
Valuable Bequest
The Providence R.I. paper of the 13th ult. states, that the will of Ebenezer Knight Dexter, Esq., late Marshal of that District, was presented for probate on Monday last, and on being read it was found that the whole of his valuable estate, with the exception of a few legacies, and an annuity of $1000 a year to his sister, was given to the town of Providence, in trust, for the poor!
It is estimated that this munificent gift will amount to the sum of “sixty thousand dollars!” Col. Dexter possessed a rich tract of land on the neck, upon which the will provides, that an asylum shall be erected by the town for the poor, and the property he has given to his native town, independent of the land, shall be funded for the support of the Asylum. There are various provisions in the will respecting this establishment, which manifest the deep interest which this liberal benefactor of the poor felt in the success of his benevolent plan. – Balt. Amer. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
September 8, 1824
Cotton Factories Destroyed
On Saturday last, the Cotton Factories belonging to Messrs. T. Green & Sons, and A. & J. Wilkinson of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, were consumed by fire. Loss estimated at $75,000 – a partonly was insured. ---ib. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]