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PG-P.753.105
23 Aug 1753:22,23 (1287)
Boston, August 13. . . Wednesday last being the annual
meeting of the Society for Encouraging Industry and
Employing the Poor, the Rev. Mr. Cooper of this town,
preached an excellent sermon . . . in the Old-South Meeting-
house. . . [8 lines, 300 spinners work in afternoon] The
weavers also (cleanly dressed in garments of their own
weaving) with a loom, and a young man at work, on a stage
prepared for that purpose, carried on mens shoulders,
attended by musick, preceded the Society, and a long train
of other gentlemen of note, both of town and country,
walking in procession to view the spinners. . .
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