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5028. MANUFACTURES, Household.—[further continued]..

Small spinning jennies
of from half a dozen to twenty spindles, will
soon make their way into the humblest cottages,
as well as the richest houses [in the
South]; and nothing is more certain, than
that the coarse and middling clothing for our
families, will forever hereafter continue to be
made within ourselves.—
To John Melish. Washington ed. vi, 94. Ford ed., ix, 373.
(M. Jan. 1813)