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" I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. "
Manual of the corporation of the city of new york - Page 462
1852
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The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under ..., Volume 1

New York (State). Secretary's Office - Canada - 1849 - 828 pages
...Accounts given me by all those persons of whom I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin...Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. There is a Manufactory of Hats in this City, which is very considerable; for the Hats are not so good as those...
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THE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK; ARRANGED UNDER DIRECTION ...

E. B. O'CALLAGHAN - 1849 - 812 pages
...made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are aWe to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished...Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. There is a Manufactory of Hats in this Cily, which is very considerable; for the Hats are trot so good as those...
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The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under ..., Volume 1

New York (State). Secretary's Office - Canada - 1849 - 818 pages
...Accounts given me by all those persons of whom I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin...furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel febout the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. There is a Manufactory of Hats in this Cily,...
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The Documentary History of the State of New-York, Volume 1

New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1849 - 836 pages
...Accounts given me by all those persons of whom I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin...Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, 1he Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work. There is a...
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Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 5

Justin Winsor - America - 1887 - 690 pages
..." This I had an opportunity of seeing during my late tour ; . . . every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to spin...the country, put the finishing hand to the work." The making of beaver hats was an industry in which the colonial competition with the English hatters...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: London: 1886-1889, Volume 5

Justin Winsor - America - 1887 - 682 pages
..." This I had an opportunity of seeing during my late tour ; . . . every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to spin...the country, put the finishing hand to the work." The making of beaver hats was an industry in which the colonial competition with the English hatters...
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Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and Frenchin North ...

Justin Winsor - America - 1887 - 674 pages
..." This I had an opportunity of seeing during my late tour ; . . . every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to spin...family is furnished with a loom, the itinerant weavers, whd travel about the country, put the finishing hand to the work." i The making of beaver hats was...
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The Textile Industries of the United States: Including Sketches ..., Volume 1

William R. Bagnall - Industrialists - 1893 - 748 pages
...without the least design of sending any of it to market. Every house swarms with children, who are set to spin and card ; and, as every family is furnished...the country, put the finishing hand to the work." Another reference to the work of the society is contained in the following advertisement in a New York...
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The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760

Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer - New York (N.Y.) - 1898 - 452 pages
...a sufficient quantity is manufactured for the use of the family. Every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to spin...itinerant weavers who travel about the country put a finishing-hand to the work." Needless to say this independence was discouraged and the English government...
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The Century Book of the American Colonies: The Story of the Pilgrimage of a ...

Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Atlantic Coast - 1900 - 256 pages
...COLONIAL DAYS. think — which declared that throughout the colony ' every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to spin and card ' ; and even in those early days the industries of New York were already struggling out of hard conditions...
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