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Burditt and Williams : Original Billhead - Burditt and Williams, Boston, Massachusetts

Original billhead on beige paper with printed text and handwriting in black ink. Datelined May 5, 1864 in Boston, Massachusetts. 7" x 7 1/2." Billhead is very clean and intact. Paper has very slight wrinkling and a few horizontal and vertical fold lines. A Fine copy. The handwritten portions include the name of the buyer, the item(s) purchased, the price of the item(s), and acknowledgment of the buyer's payment. The printed text reads, "Sole Agents for the Sale of the American Whip Co's Whips & Lashes. Bought of Burditt & Williams, Successors to Otis Vinal, 20 Dock Square, and 30 Faneuil Hall Square. Importers and Dealers in Hard Ware and Cutlery, Lead, Nails, Zinc, Window Weights, Carpenters' Tools, Building Materials, &c. Charles A. Burditt, Joseph Williams." Joseph Williams and Charles Burditt were the cofounders of Burditt & Williams, a hardware store. Williams and Burditt had both worked for M. C. Warren, a well-known and respected hardware merchant in Boston, before establishing their own firm. In 1860, the two founded Burditt & Williams after they bought out Otis Vinal's hardware store located at 20 Dock Square. The buyer was P. W. Dudley & Co. P. Whitin & Sons was a cotton manufacturing company in Northbridge, Massachusetts. Paul Whitin (1767-1831) was a pioneering businessman and blacksmith who helped establish the Northbridge Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1809. The Whitinsville village of Northbridge is named after him. Paul and his relatives founded another cotton manufacturing company in 1815 called Whitin & Fletchers. Paul gained sole ownership of Whitin & Fletchers in 1826, and together with his sons Paul, Jr. and John, renamed the company P. Whitin & Sons. After the passing of their father in 1831, Paul, Jr. and John bought the Northbridge Manufacturing Company. Paul's two other younger sons, Charles and James, would later join P. Whitin & Sons. In 1864, the four brothers dissolved P. Whitin & Sons and sold the company store to their cousin, Paul Whitin Dudley, which was renamed P. W. Dudley & Company. Paul, Jr., John, Charles, and James went on to form their own companies. P. Whitin & Sons had also manufactured cotton machinery. James had invented a cotton picker machine that outperformed previous models. This invention helped propel his business, Whitin Machine Works (WMW), into prominence as one of the world's largest textile machinery companies. WMW, or "The Shop" as known to locals, was a mainstay in Whitinsville until 1966 when it was sold to White Consolidated Industries (WCI; formerly White Sewing Machine Company). In 1986, WCI was acquired by Electrolux, which operates to this day as a leading appliance manufacturer.. Ephemera. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: No Binding

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