Hello If you go to the url listed below, you can read a book on the textile industry in Phila. Their is a long list of Veriee textile manufactures list which one of them is my great grandfather John Cotshott. John http://books.google.com/books?vid=0rcDpQE0iT85nFDvuW&id=RsIFAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22john+cotshott%22#PPA22,M1