July 10. We can assure the Public, that Spinning is so much encouraged among us, that a Lady in Town… has within about three Weeks become a very good Spinner, though she never spun a Thread in her Life before."

What is the most likely source of this quotation?

A journal kept by a woman who was responding to the Townshend Acts
A journal kept by the son of a cotton farmer in Massachusetts
A newspaper article about colonial women who were learning a trade
A newspaper article covering the conditions working in textile mills

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July 10. We can assure the Public, that Spinning is so much encouraged among us, that a Lady in Town… has within about three Weeks become a very good Spinner, though she never spun a Thread in her Life before."

What is the most likely source of this quotation?

 A journal kept by a woman who was responding to the Townshend Acts
 A journal kept by the son of a cotton farmer in Massachusetts
 A newspaper article about colonial women who were learning a trade
 A newspaper article covering the conditions working in textile mills