The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . st to issue certificates of attendance to those scholars under fourteenwho had complied with the requirements of the law regarding the em-ployment of children in factories. This system was adopted on petitionof the manufacturers to the school board, Aug. 20, 1808. Since thenthe State has incorporated the system into its school laws. The charter for a ferry across the Connecticut River was grantedin 1783. There was then no public road east of Centre Street; but in1788 the town laid out a highway from the ferry to Centre Street,
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . st to issue certificates of attendance to those scholars under fourteenwho had complied with the requirements of the law regarding the em-ployment of children in factories. This system was adopted on petitionof the manufacturers to the school board, Aug. 20, 1808. Since thenthe State has incorporated the system into its school laws. The charter for a ferry across the Connecticut River was grantedin 1783. There was then no public road east of Centre Street; but in1788 the town laid out a highway from the ferry to Centre Street, 1 Jaljez Haskells account-book has a charge, under date of 1777, to Samuel Wing forschooling your children 7s. WINDSOR LOCKS. 565 entering it a little north of Oak Street. At the same time Elm Streetwas made a publie highway. A trespass road was continued acrossHaskell & Dexters milldam, and thence to the ferry. Except whenthey had a favoring south wind, the ferrymen propelled their boat by poling or rowing. About thirty years ago a pier was Iniilt above the. THE FEBKY TO EAST WINDSOR. ferry about midway of the river, from which a wire runs to the boat,and by which it is swung from side to side. The whole manufacturing system has been changed witliin the lastsixty or seventy years. Previous to that time all well-to-do familiesraised their wool and flax, and spun and wove the material for theirordinary clothing.^ Calicoes, silks, and broadcloths were worn onlyon rare occasions. Girls were ambitious to learn to spin wool, linen,and tow, and to make such proficiency in the art that they could accom-plish a days work before the middle of the afternoon. It was thework of the men to prepare the flax — to rot, to break, to swingle, and tohatchel it—before it passed into the hands of the women. In earliertimes men learned and practised the trade of the weaver ; but later, theweaving devolved largely upon the women. The tangled product ofthe hatchelling process was called tow, and w
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