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BG.770.031
21 May 1770:31 (790)
Boston, May 21. Last Wednesday forty-five Daughters of
Liberty, met in the morning at the house of the Rev. Mr.
Moorhead in this town; in the afternoon they exceeded fifty.
By the evening of said day they spun 232 skeins of yarn, so
very fine, their labour and materials were all generously
given the worthy pastor.
Nothing appeared in their whole conduct, but love,
festivity and application. They were, by a great majority,
of his own congregation; the rest of the ladies belong'd to
other societies in the town, who generously offer'd their
service. For all which, the recipient is under great
obligations to the whole.
Their entertainment, was wholly American production,
excepting a little wine, &c. Many ladies and gentlemen were
pleased to visit this agreeable collection, and appear'd
highly gratified. There are above 100 spinners in Mr.
Moorhead's Society; and considering they are comparatively
small, 'tis suppos'd that no congregation in the province
can produce so great a number, of the same number of
families.
The whole was concluded with many agreeable tunes, anthems
and liberty songs, with great judgment; fine voices
perform'd and animated on this occasion, in all their
several parts, by a number of the Sons of Liberty.
Let this serve as a specimen, to excite the numerous fair
in this metropolis, and country towns, to exert their parts
in rendering this happy climate oppulent and
flourishing.---Quid enim tentare nocebit ?
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