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Original September 1845 Letter
Caroline and Rebecca write to their brother William R. Ford
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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... |
...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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Laura Howe, wife of William R. Ford, exchanges letters with her sister, Priss, about life as a mill worker.
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