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 inventories of Middlesex, Lancaster, and the Eastern Shore disclose an equal number.

The presence of the loom is also shown in a number of cases. In 1668, William Parker, a former servant of Nathaniel Bacon, Sr., owned and operated a machine of this character in York with valuable encouragement from the county. Many years later, there was recorded in Elizabeth City an indenture, by the terms of which John Stringer was bound out for a period of five years to serve as an apprentice of Charles Combs and his wife in the trade of a weaver. John West of Lower Norfolk, William Glover, William Cocke, and Martin Elam of Henrico, John Wallop of Accomac, and Charles Kelly of Lancaster were owners of looms. William Phillips, also of Accomac, a weaver by profession, was a plan of property; in 1696, he is found buying a plantation in that county covering one hundred acres. The manufacture of these looms extended to blankets and to flannel.