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? (4 points)

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 covering the conditions working in textile mills

A newspaper article about colonial women who were learning a trade

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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? (4 points)

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 covering the conditions working in textile mills

A newspaper article about colonial women who were learning a trade

Mercury · Answer

old question but will respond so this can be closed

notice the subject of this quote - a "Lady in Town" who "has within about three Weeks become a very good Spinner", "Spinning is so much encouraged among us [implied to be women]". so it's discussing women who are learning how to spin thread