Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 341
on carriages andarticles of luxury to erect the build-ing. Spinning now became theorder of the day. Young and old,rich and poor, repaired to the Com-mon with their spinning-wheels,great and small, stimulated by apremium offered to the most skilful.Many were clad in garments of theirown manufacture… … WOOLLEN SPINNING-WHEEL. A TOUR EOUND THE COMMON. 303 time after the building was used for the manufacture of worstedhose, metal buttons, etc., but in 1768 was rented by the prov-ince and occupied by private families. At this time it acquired celebrity from the attempt made byColonel Dalrymple, of…
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