And supplied domestic comfort.
Lawyers, doctors, merchants, traders,
Preachers, artisans, and idlers,
From afar and near flocked hither;
And the “continental coppers”
Were in speedy circulation.
Spinning, weaving, sewing, knitting,
Filled the women’s dextrous fingers,
And the homespun and the linsey
Were the choice and boasted fabrics,