Ford Family Letters
A Deeper Look Into 19th Century Women's Labor:
The Original Correspondance Between Two Working Sisters and Their Family
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"Sometime
in the late 1830’s Rebecca Ford, the daughter of Asa Ford of
Granville, Vermont, crossed over the mountain pass dividing the White
River Valley from the Champlain Valley and went to work in one of
the textile mills bordering the falls of the Otter Creek in Middlebury....
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...In the late spring of 1841 Rebecca was joined by her sister Caroline. For the next seven years both sisters continued to earn their living as mill workers and for the most of that time they remained in Middlebury..." |
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