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... When returning to the country he was still intrigued by the machine he had just saw. He described the weaving system to Paul Moody, a local mechanic, who constructed the machine for him. After Francis Cabot Lowell's death in 1817, the city of Lowell Massachusetts was named in honor of him. Lowell's initiative in the enterprise was passed on to his friend Nathan Appleton and his brother-in-law, Patrick Tracy Jackson. Both had their hands full so they decided to pass on the enterprise to Kirk Boott, who had been a Boston merchant. It was these three men who set out to find a site for the new BMC. They settled for the Pawtucket Canal. It would give them power over the Merrimack River, which was one of the largest rivers in New England, the Middlesex Canal, that touched its tip, and to make matters even bett...