The early English cotton industry

by George W. Daniels

[392] John Kennedy “was the first to introduce the double speed or twisting motion to Crompton’s mule, and he may be considered as the immediate successor of Arkwright and Crompton” (Fairbairn, ibid., cxcvii.).

[393] Kennedy, Rise and Progress of the Cotton Trade, pp. 121-122, 126-129. Report on State of Children employed in Manufactories (1816), p. 344.

[394] Kennedy, ibid., p. 16.

[395] Autobiography, p. 22.

[396] Economic Journal, June, 1915.

[397] Banks, The Manchester Man, ch. xxxii. The author was misinformed as to the Christian name of Mr. M‘Connel.

[398] Kennedy, Early Recollections (1849), pp. 9-10.

[399] Report on State of Children employed in Manufactories, pp. 234, 244.

[400] Kennedy, Early Recollections (1849), pp. 9-10. This man evidently gathered round himself a small colony of Scotsmen as there are others mentioned.

[401] Clarke, The New Lancashire Gazetteer, pp. 33-34.