Ftripes and Checks, which for durabil
ity far exceeds that Imported from
any other country.1 The patronage of
the Patriotic who wisn to encourage
home manufacurera, as well as those
who, by purchasing the most durable
articles, consult their own emolument,
is solicited. The business of the com
pany -under the above firm, ii princi
pally transacted by their Smith Wll
klnson, as agent, at th? Manufactory
«- Pomfret; but any orders will #i*0
be executed by applying to either of 1
the concerned at their respective *
dwellings.” i
The ground on which this old cotton !
mill was erected was purchased one
hundred and one,years ago. It Includ
ed Cargill Falls and land aronnd
them, at that time and for more than
half a century thereafter in the town
of Pomfret
By Inheritance from his tether,
Or las Wilkinson, and by purchase]
Smith Wilkinson became sole owner
adding largely to his possessions.
His son Edmund, with Wilkinson’s
daughters. Mfs. Perkins, Mrs. Whita
ker and Mrs. N. W. Mason, the last a
resident of Washington, D. C„ now
eighty-six years old. Inherited the es
tate- No member bearing the namo of
the Wilkinson family, once owners of
the falls, has today any Interest in
Putnam. Their* manufacturing proper
ty and most of their real estate was
r "old to their ccmsta. the late Thomas
Harris, of Providence. He Is a great
grandson of Osins Wilkinson, grand
I son of Timothy Greene and great no
j rhew of the other Wilkinsons In the
j origins! company.
