Archive:The Connecticut Nutmegger, Volume 6

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William Griswold, "The Griswold Family", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 6, no. 4 (Mar 1973):512-513.

[p. 512]

Soon Samuel [Griswold] set up his own business, the manufacture of cotton gins, 17 years after their invention by Eli Whitney. Eli never made much money with his invention but evidently Samuel Griswold did.

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