The Passaic County Historical
Society
Lambert Castle, Paterson, NJ
American
Duck
by Edward Graf
Short Sketches on Passaic County History, 1935,
When the American ship Hannibal sailed from New York in March 1822,
under a wide spread canvas of American Duck, there was a feeling of high
satisfaction in Paterson for this was manufactured at the Phoenix mill
of Messrs. Vasques and Travers. The full suit of sails was pronounced
of the first order and it was calculated this would remove the unfavorable
impression abroad of the inferiority of our domestic fabrics.
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