1From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Franklin, 6 January 1727 (Franklin Papers)
...a celebrated beauty. I had almost determined on a tea table, but when I considered that the character of a good housewife was far preferable to that of being only a pretty gentlewoman, I concluded to send you a spinning wheel, which I hope you will accept as a small token of my sincere love and affection.
2Anthony Afterwit, 10 July 1732 (Franklin Papers)
...(except my Boy) none but our selves). I have sold the fine Pacing Mare, and bought a good Milch Cow, with £3 of the Money. I have dispos’d of the Tea-Table, and put a Spinning Wheel in its Place, which methinks
3Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, [28 May 1754] (Franklin Papers)
the Beginning of 1754, Spinning-wheels were provided by the Managers, for the Employment of such of the Women Patients as may be able to use them.
4Appendix E. Consolidated Inventory of Personal Property in the Estate, c.1761 (Washington Papers)
336. Spinning wheel 1 V[ide] 44.
5From Benjamin Franklin to Giambatista Beccaria, 13 July 1762 (Franklin Papers)
...end through the box, on which shank a wheel is fixed by a screw. This wheel serves as a fly to make the motion equable, when the spindle, with the glasses, is turned by the foot like a spinning wheel. My wheel is of mahogany, 18 inches diameter, and pretty thick, so as to conceal near its circumference about 25 lb. of lead. An ivory pin is fixed in the face of this wheel and about 4...
6Cash Accounts, October 1765 (Washington Papers)
By Mr Jas Wren for Spinning Wheels &ca
7[July 1769] (Washington Papers)
...near present-day Hague, Va. Known as Squire Lee, he was a Westmoreland burgess 1754–74, naval officer of the South Potomac district, and a member of the Ohio Company. He today paid GW 16s. for a spinning wheel (
8[Diary entry: 18 July 1769] (Washington Papers)
...near present-day Hague, Va. Known as Squire Lee, he was a Westmoreland burgess 1754–74, naval officer of the South Potomac district, and a member of the Ohio Company. He today paid GW 16s. for a spinning wheel (
9To George Washington from James Mercer, 11 August 1773 (Washington Papers)
...the commerce of Great Britain,’ and that Colonel Fairfax had said many thousand ‘families were settled within the bounds of the new Province, and that each of them had a loom and spinning wheel, and would always manufacture every article of cloath they wanted, of course would not want any British manufactures: and that the people on the Ohio might be easily and conveniently governed by...
10To George Washington from James Stewart, 28 December 1774 (Washington Papers)
, &c. &c.” Stewart, in addition to advertising all the seeds and plants, offered to instruct spinning-wheel makers in making his improved machines for spinning cotton. Stewart indicated that he would be staying at Jane Vobe’s King’s Arms Tavern, opposite the Raleigh Tavern, for the next few days; after that he would be...