Remarkable Women of New England by Owens Carole;

Author:Owens, Carole;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493018451
Publisher: Globe Pequot

It was not possible in a world turned by manual labor, the world prior to the Industrial Revolution, for any single family unit to survive unaided. Neighbors helped. With manpower and horses from her own household and that of her neighbor’s, Mary laid in the wood necessary to heat the house in winter.

“We now have, near forty cord25 of wood, drawn since I last wrote you. John employed Enoch Humphrey and Park in chopping while he with our horses and Edward H with Captain Whitney’s [horses] for six days brought wood as fast as the strength of the animals would permit.”26

In the social circle, women came together and worked. Quilting and sewing bees multiplied the hands to ease the labor. The woman’s circle made clothes and food for the poor, and it was dispensed from their circle. That was how the women were employed in Stockbridge when the irresponsible lad left off loading the cart and took a young girl’s ribbon.27

Vassal White remembered Mary’s largess and wrote:

The tale of suffering or of woe

Was never told to her in vain

Her bounties made the wretched glow

Relieved their wants and eased their pain.28

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