achine that bears the serial number
22; it was manufactured before April 18, 1851, the date it was recorded
as received by the Patent Office.

[59] William R. Bagnall, in "Contributions to American Economic
History," vol. 1 (1908), MS, Harvard School of Business Library.

[60] Singer purchased Phelps' interest in the company in 1851 and sold
it to Edward Clark.

[61] This first, family sewing machine should not be confused in name
with a model brought out in the sixties. The name of this first, family
machine was in the sense of a new "family" sewing machine. In 1859 a
"Letter A" family machine was introduced. Thus in 1865 when the Singer
Company brought out another family machine they called it the "New"
Family Sewing Machine. Both the first-style Family machine and the
Letter A machine are illustrated in _Eighty Years of Progress of the
United States_ (New York, 1861), vol. 2, p. 417, and discussed in an
article, "The Place and Its Tenants," in the _Sewing Machine Times_
(Dec. 25, 1908), vol. 27, no. 893.

[62] A looper on the underside in place of the horizontal needle.

[63] Domestic Sewing Machine Company. See _Union Special Sewing Machine
Co. Sales Bulletin_, vol. 3, ch. 15, pp. 58-59.

_Chapter Three_

[Illustration:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| A PARTIAL STATEMENT FROM RECORDS OF "THE SEWING-MACHINE COMBINATION," |
| SHOWING NUMBER OF SEWING-MACHINES LICENSED ANNUALLY |
| UNDER THE _ELIAS HOWE_ PATENT. |
+-----+--------+---------+---------+---------+------+-------+-------+--------+
|NAME |Wheeler |I. M. |The |Grover & |A. B. |Leavitt|Ladd & |Bartholf|
|OF |& |Singer |Singer |Baker |Howe |S. M. |Webster|S. M. |
|MANU-|Wilson |& Co. |Manufac- |S. M. Co.|S. M. |Co. |S. M. |Co. |
|FACT-|Mfg. Co.| |turing | |Co. | |Co. | |
|URER.| | |Co. | | | | | |
+-----+--------+---------+---------+---------+------+-------+-------+--------+
|1853 |799 |810 |.... |657 |.... |28 |100 |135 |
|1854 |756 |879 |.... |2,034 |60 |217 |268 |55 |
|1855 |1,171 |883 |.... |1,144 |53 |152 |73 |31 |
|1856 |2,210 |2,564 |.... |1,952 |47 |235 |180 |35 |
|1857 |4,591 |3,6