1Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton, 14 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
...a single yard of coarse goods (blankets excepted) & but little will be wanted of goods of midling qualities. for the fine we must depend on the town manufactories. most of us are still however at the old spinning wheel & hand cards. a few neighbors of us are setting up some spinning jennies, next in simplicity to the spinning wheel. but I have seen in the hands of a friend an advertisement...
2Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 20 January 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
Indeed the common Spinning-wheel must be kept with care: and
how much better will the one in question repay every care!
3James Ronaldson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
who have the misfortune of being prisoners of war in foreign countries—Should be instructed to provid them with spinning wheels, cards, knitting needles, wool, flax & Cotton, with these
simple means the poor fellows could C
4From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
To me he adds, “By the same vessel I propose consigning &c. a machine of prodigious consequence under present circumstances, combining great usefulness & little expence, and meant to take the place of the common small spinning Wheel in the manufacture of flax tow & hemp. It occupies little more room than the old spinning wheel, is put & kept in motion by any old or young negro wench, gives you...
5To James Madison from John Armstrong, 30 March 1809 (Madison Papers)
By the same vessel I propose con[s]igning to your patronage, a machine of prodigious consequence to us under our present circumstances—combining great usefulness & little expence, and meant to take the place of the common small Spinning-wheel in the manufacture of flax, tow and hemp. It occupies little more room than the Old spinning wheel, is put and kept in motion by any old or young Negro...
6James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
...prodigious consequence under present circumstances, combining great usefulness & little expence, and meant to take the place of the common small spining Wheel in the manufacture of flax tow & hemp. It occupies little more room than the old spinning wheel, is put & kept in motion by any old or young negro wench,
7Thomas Jefferson’s Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
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8Thomas Jefferson to John McAllister (1753–1830), 24 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
and apprenticed there as a turner, spinning-wheel maker, carpenter, and joiner. He immigrated to
9To James Madison from Gabriel Richard, 12 October 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...U.S. government still wishes to charge rent he asks that the improvements made to the farm be considered as an equivalent. Otherwise, he can only pay the rent by selling “the best part of our apparatus as Spinning wheels, looms, Electrical Machine &c. which shall prove exceedingly fatal and hurtfull to so valuable an Institution.”
10Thomas Jefferson to Samuel P. Parsons, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
2. his has a single wheel only, as light as a cotton spinning wheel, about 2.f. distant from the beam, turning an axis not bigger than the wrist, with a broken joint in that axis enabling the wheel to mount over stones & moderate stumps without interrupting the motion of the...