The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

An Extraordinary female, Margaret Caruthers.—This extraordinary woman has been employed annually by Richard Brecks, Esq. and his ancestors, at Warcop, in Westmoreland, as a reaper, from the year of the Rebellion, 1745, until the present season of 1826, without one single intermission; and such has been her athletic powers, that she would exceed in reaping (nearly the whole of the period,) the performance of any male laborer in the county. She is now bordering on ninety years of age, yet blessed with all her intellectual as well as physical powers; and is to be seen every week travelling on foot, backwards and forwards, to Appleby market, a distance of ten miles, for the purpose of vending a quantity of wicker baskets and chairs, (which she straps to her back,) the product of her industry during the past week. A gentleman, now in London, who has known her from his infancy, saw her very lately immersed to the waist in a small stream, leading into the river Eden, enjoying the sport of fishing for trout, and actually partook of a part of the fish the old lady had decoyed into her net. [Eng. paper.]