Elder Job MANCHESTER

1794 - 1869  (75 years)

• Name	Job MANCHESTER
  Prefix	Elder
  Born	31 May 1794
  Gender	Male
  Ordained	Oct 1828
  _UID	16F08D4A7424B94280C83C93BE8B67C2F958
  Died	9 Aug 1869	probably Providence, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I31937	Branch 005 Josiah Stafford (Stover) 1662 ME
  Last Modified	30 Oct 2011

  
  

  Family	Rebecca STAFFORD,   b. 17 Mar 1790, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island ,   d. 17 Nov 1852, Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island  (Age 62 years)
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F11787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Of Pawtucket. Elder Job Manchester was a skillful mechanic as well as an able pastor and preacher. As early as 1816 he invented a power loom, for weaving cotton cloth, and in 1818 made some improvements on the Bed Tick or Twilled work, looms. He was a practical machinist. See 'Transactions of the R. I. Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry' for 1864, pp. 6-76. Ordained: Pastor of the Shawomet Baptist Church of Warwick, RI. In 1843 he resigned his charge and removed to Providence, RI, where he united with the Steward Street Baptist Church.