1From 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...
2From 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...
3Franklin’s List of New Year’s Gifts and Gratuities, 29[-31] December 1778 (Franklin Papers)
Small spinning Wheel...the Le Veillard daughter, Geneviève. The “Small spinning Wheel” is...
4Anthony Afterwit, 10 July 1732 (Franklin Papers)
...have dispos’d of the Tea-Table, and put a Spinning Wheel in its Place, which methinks
5Some 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...