General Committee shall resulut on the subject.
On conferring with a number of the women
who are much interested in
learning to spin we
concluded to supply them with two pounds of
wool
& six pounds of flax each; there are about Twenty
four who are learning, and as more wheels are
needed we concluded
to furnish them with one great
& one small wheel, & a loom
which they were
very desirous of having; as one of their
number
has learned to weave
We proceeded to Stockbridge
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in the Meeting House with such of the Tribe as
could be collected They like the other Tribes have
unhappily taken part in the war, and their
habits of intemperance as might be expected are
not lessened; their women have made great
advancement in spinning, about sixty have
learned in a greater or less degree, and in order
to encourage them in it, we concluded to furnish