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![parsons-co.jpg][1]Israel F. ParsonsBookbinder105 Unionres.: 32 EighthNew BedfordMassachusetts ,1849. 1.Spawn 94.1.Taber, “New Bedford Directory” 1849, pg.1262. PARSONS & CO. BOOKSELLERS & BINDERS 102 UNION STREET NEW BEDFORD. Embossed binders ticket on free endpaper of “The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of thePicturessque”,  by William Combe, Reprinted by T.F. Bell London; for sale byJohn Campbell, Philadelphia 1865.image from volume sold on e-bay.** ** [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1332/parsons-co.jpg (parsons-co.jpg)

William ParsonsPrinter & BookbinderRyeNew Hampshireb. April 23,1813 Rye N.H.,  d, Dec. 25,1833 1.1. Langdon Brown Parsons, History of the Town of Rye New Hampshire, pg. 478.

![johnpartridge.jpg][1]John Partridge*Bookbinder306 California StreetSan FranciscoCalifornia 1.*Dutton & Partridge were partners in San Francisco since 1882. In 1897 Partridge would stay at 306 California Street (under Bookbinders) and Samuel Dutton would move to 203 Battery (listed under Blank Book Manufacturer). see: Samuel Dutton and Dutton & Partridge1 San Francisco Business Directory 18972. John Partridge was still at this address in 1905 In 1906 this area wasburned in the 1906 San Francisco fire.3. 759 Filmore May 1906, Beecher & Pike, Relief Directory4. John Partridge was not in the 1907-1910, Crocker Langley S. F. BusinessDirectories. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/837/johnpartridge.jpg (johnpartridge.jpg)

Nathaniel PattenBookbinder, Stationer and BooksellerBostonMassachusetts 1.1. “Mr. Patten had left Boston on account of the troubles with the mothercountry in which that town was so deeply involved, and probably returned to itas soon as the British troops were withdrawn.” Francis Manwaring Caulkins,History of Norwich Connecticut,1874, pgs. 361-3622. (1774, May)  Norwich Green, Norwich CT, “Near the east end of the Plain”… “to bind, gilt and letter books in as splendid a manner as can be done inLondon”  Francis Manwaring Caulkins, History of Norwich Connecticut,1874,pgs.361-3623.(1777) Hartford,  Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten. : Paul LeicesterFord The New England Primer, a History, 1897,  pg. 3034. (1786) Johnathan Edwards, Mr Nathaniel Patten, Hartford, Subscriber to Ahistory of the Work of Redemption, pg. XX.5.(1778) “possibly the same Nathaniel Patten, a bookbinder… joined with Bemis to build a paper-mill” American Paper Mills 1690-1832, John Bidwell pg.966. (1780), “A Little North of the Court House in Hartford ” : The ConnecticutCurrants Tuesday Feb. 22, 1780. From: Paul Leicester Ford The New EnglandPrimer, a History, 1897,  pg. 316.(same listing in 1781. ibid. pg 317)7.(1793)  Printed by Nathaniel Patten. Nehemiah Strong, An Almanack for 1793,Hartford in U. To Toronto Library.

James PattersonBookbinder and StationerAmherstNew Hampshire    1.1.(1802) Captain James Patterson.  Sterns will place Patterson in Nashua in1804 (see next listing). Farmer in Dumbarton (1824), Manufacturer in Nashua(1831) . Avis Stearns Van Wagnen, Stearns Genealogy and  Memoirs. pg. 104.2. (1803) “Old Tontine”, Dunstable, (1803) History of Nashua N. H.  part V,Dunstable,  from 1800-1860)