Amasa was able to sell his first machine for £250 to William Thomas of Cheapside, London, who owned a factory for the manufacture of corsets, umbrellas and valises.
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Howe was a direct descendant of John Howe (1602-1680) who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 from Brinklow, Warwickshire, England and settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
The founder was not the eponymous and better-known inventor of the sewing machine but a contemporary and possibly a distant relative.
Mr. Howe is mentioned due to the patent thicket that threatened to put the smaller sewing machine companies out of business.
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