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BG.753.024
14 Aug 1753:31 (33)
Boston. . . Last Wednesday being the annual meeting of the
Society for Encouraging Industry and Imploying the Poor, an
excellent sermon was preached before the said society and a
vast assembly, at the Old South Meeting House, by the Rev.
Mr. Samuel Cooper of this town,. . . [4 lines] and in the
afternoon near 300 spinners, some of them children of 7 or 8
years old, and several of the daughters of the best families
among us, with their wheels at work, sitting orderly in
three rows, made a handsome appearance on the common: The
weavers with a loom and one at work, on a stage made for
that purpose, attended with musick, preceeding the Society
as they walk'd in procession to view the said
spinners.---Several thousand spectators assembled on this
occasion.
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