Sykes, Stead & Co. return their grateful acknowledgements to the public, for the great encouragement they have received from them, (while occupying Robert Phillips' mill,) ... We also wish to notify the public, that as our term is out at the above place, we have leased for 5 years a mill, one mile and an half from Wilmington ... known by the name of Rockford Factory ... at which factory, we intend to carry on the woollen manufacturing business. ([publisher not identified],, 1818)