1To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 February 1819 to 26 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
...ear something like the effect of a Cotton spinning wheel, which is not dull enough to set...
2To John Adams from Richard Cranch, 13 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
...in upon us at the Peace, soon stopt the Spinning-Wheel the Loom and the fulling-Mill, which at...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Giambatista Beccaria, 13 July 1762 (Franklin Papers)
...glasses, is turned by the foot like a spinning wheel. My wheel is of mahogany, 18 inches...
4From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 14 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
...—two strong bramble Scythes, & two flax spinning wheels. The Dolphin returns to this Port...
5Thomas Jefferson to James Clarke, 1 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
...light, the wheels to be like cotton spinning wheels & all other parts proportionably light....
...s letter, that you intend to “turn your spinning wheel,” the more we are qualified to help...
...find that you intend to turn your spinning wheel; the more we are qualified to help...
8To Benjamin Franklin from Vergennes, 19 November 1781 (Franklin Papers)
...a treadel fixed in the manner of a spinning wheel, which turned a set of musical glasses,...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Franklin, 6 January 1727 (Franklin Papers)
...pretty gentlewoman, I concluded to send you a spinning wheel, which I hope you will accept as...
10Thomas Jefferson’s Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
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