LIST OF SEWING MACHINE COMPANIES, PROPRIETORS AND INVENTORS IN EXHIBITION AT NEW YORK CITY  IN 1853-4

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29  Three sewing machines

respectively adapted to sewing woollen goods, muslin, linen fabrics and leathers

Avery Sewing Machine Company

manufacturer 251 Broadway, New York  City

US 9.338     October 19, 1852

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32  Miniature automaton shoe machine

John  James Greenough

proprietor, 6 Wall Street, New York  City

US 10.427     January 17, 1854 

45   A Sewing machine for making sails

Daniel C. Ambler

inv., man. & prop. 64 Broadway, New York City

US 11.884    November 7, 1854

46  Improved sewing machine

Abraham Bartholf

man. & prop. 33 Gold St., New York City inventors, Blodgett & Lerow

US 6.766           October 2, 1849

58  Various sewing machines

Grover, Baker & Co.

inv. & manu, Haymarket Square, Boston, Massachusetts

63  A sewing machine

Freeman Palmer

inv. & prop.  Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio

US 9.556        January 25, 1853

65   A sewing machine

John Batchelder & Co.

manu.  Lisbon Cotton Mills, Lisbon, Connecticut

US 7.659       September 24, 1850

99  Patent sewing machine

Elias Howe, Jr.

pat. & prop. Cambridgeport, Massachusetts 201 Broadway, New York City

136  Boot and leather sewing machine

William Wickersham

inv. & pat. 20 Bulfinch Street, Boston,   Massachusetts

US 9.679    April 19, 1853    

138  Improved self-feeding sewing machine

Pearson Crosby

pat. & manu. Fredonia, New York  City

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From The Invention of the Sewing Machine, by Grace Rogers Cooper

A  William C. Watson machine was exhibited at the 1853 New York Industry of All Nations Exhibition. This was a single-looping machine; Watson received a patent for this single-thread machine on November 25, 1856.