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Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
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A 95-year-old woman in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, recently completed a large quilt by hand without spectacles, showcasing her lifelong industry and temperance, including sewing shirts for Revolutionary War soldiers at low pay despite personal losses.
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Mr. Kingman,—I have just returned from a journey into New Hampshire. In the town of Portsmouth, I called upon a Lady who was 95 years old last February, and she informed me that she had, in the last fortnight, put a quilt 24 yds. square into a frame, and finished it with her own hands, and without spectacles. On my expressing great surprise, the quilt was produced, and appeared as if it had been made by young fingers. I asked the old lady how she had lived? She said she had been a very industrious woman. That during the revolutionary war, she made shirts for soldiers for 9d a piece, while her neighbors, who could not afford so well as she to be idle, refused the work on account of the price— She had been an early riser, and a temperate eater, and a very cheerful woman, though she has lost most of her children, and seen much trouble. C. T.
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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95 Years Old Last February; Last Fortnight; During The Revolutionary War
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A 95-year-old lady in Portsmouth quilts a 24-yard square quilt by hand without spectacles in the last fortnight. She attributes her vitality to lifelong industry, early rising, temperate eating, and cheerfulness despite losing most children and much trouble, including making soldiers' shirts for 9d each during the Revolutionary War while neighbors refused the low pay.