He acquired the Clapp Mill in 1817, established on the Mumford River circa 1810, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

Roger Rogerson then built two cotton mills at the Mumford River in Uxbridge circa 1823-1827.

[3] The Boston Globe published a summary of the Mill village in a 1971 edition.

[5] Uxbridge is in the Blackstone Valley, the earliest industrialized region in the U.S.

See also Whitinsville, Massachusetts for more history references of the "Whitin Machine Works".