Presbyterian Women's Society 1787 & Rev. wife, Mrs Murrary

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS  BY HENRY M. BROOKS & Project Gutenberg 

The Newburyport Printmaker

  From the "Salem Mercury," April 28, 1787.

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Not long ago a number of ladies belonging to the Presbyterian Society in NewburyPort, aſſembled at the Parſonage-houſe, with their spinning-wheels and other utensils of industry, for the day, to the benefit of their minister's family. The aſſembly having first united in the solemn exercises of ſocial worship, the buſineſs of the day was opened. Every apartment in the house was full. The music of the spinning-wheel reſounded from every room. Benevolence was ſeen smiling in every countenance, and the harmony of hearts surpaſſed even the harmony of wheels. The labours of the day were concluded about 5 o'clock; when the fair labourers presented Mrs. Murray with cotton and linen yarn, of the beſt quality, amounting to 236 skeins. Necessary refreshment being paſt, publick worship was attended; and a discourse delivered, by the Rev. Mr. Murray, to a large assembly, from Exodus 35, 25, And all the women that were wiſe-hearted did ſpin with their hands.
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