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of Bolton
1865 Patent to Benjamin Dobson, of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, Machine Maker, William Slater, of the same place, Manager, and Robert Halliwell, of the same place, Foreman, in respect of the invention of "improvements in machinery for ginning cotton."[1] - presumably of Dobson and Barlow
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