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| | Lacemaking in colonial Ipswich, Massachusetts Magazine Antiques - Find Articles |
 | | The Ipswich industry is documented in an exchange of letters prompted by the first United States census of 1790 between the Reverend Joseph Dana (1742-1827), the pastor of the South Church of Ipswich from 1765 until his death,(5) and George Cabot (1752-1823), soon to be the United States Senator from Massachusetts. |
 | | Dana was asked, presumably by Cabot, to describe the industries active in the town, their size, and the value of their production. |
 | | In Dana's final accounting of lacemaking in the town he reported to Cabot on January 24, 1791, that between August 1789 and August 1790 six hundred lacemakers produced 41, 979 yards of lace. |
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