Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor

Use the  1752 Report Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor and the  1752 Flax Advertisement to answer the following:

1. How many yards of linen were manufactured?

2. How does the fall linen production compare to the winter production?

3. Why do you think Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia is contributing to a charitable operation in Boston?

4. What is a pistole?

5. How many pistoles did Franklin donate?

6. How would these pistoles be divided?

2 pistoles –
1 pistole –
2 pistoles –
1 pistole –
2 pistoles –
1 pistole –
1 pistole –

7. From what raw material is the cloth linen made from?

8. What does ‘old tenor’ mean?