[Articles of the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor]. Text begins: Whereas it is found by experience that this province is not adapted for raising sheep - [Boston : Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor, 1754] - 12 p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Letter to subscribers on p. 12, dated 1754, reads: "You have herewith a printed copy of the Articles of the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor, and a list of the names of the gentlemen who continue to promote the same by their subscriptions." Signatures: A-Cē.

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Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor.


Poor--Massachusetts--Early works to 1800.
Linen industry--Massachusetts--Early works to 1800.

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