Moses Brown was an early American industrialist, a co-founder of Brown University and abolitionist. - AsNotedIn
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| Nicolas Brown and Company |
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| 1784/00/00 | A committee of New England Yearly Meeting which includes Moses Brown opens a school at Portsmouth Friends Meeting House in Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island. Its thirty students board with local Friends. | Vocation | Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery | Portsmouth, RI | |||
| 1788/00/00 | Due to the trade conditions and the general impoverishment of the Quakers who remained on Aquidneck after the war, the Portsmouth Friends school closes for lack of financial support. Funds remaining from the school are entrusted to Moses Brown. | Vocation | Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery | Portsmouth, RI | |||
| 1793/00/00 | Moses Brown of Providence During employs Samuel Slater to rebuild an Arkwright spinning frame. | Owner | Old Slater Mill | Pawtucket, RI | Invention of American Textile Mill | ||
| 1819/00/00 | The Portsmouth Quaker school reopens in Providence. Moses Brown with his son Obadiah and his son-in-law William Almy to pay for the construction of the first building, which still serves as the main building of the school. | Benefactor | Moses Brown School | Providence, RI |
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