They traveled on snowshoes and by stage, finding the bitterness of the people growing more intense as they proceeded.

They found many women using thorns instead of pins and knitting one pair of stockings with the ravelings of another.

They were also flossing out their silk gowns and spinning the floss into gloves with cotton.

All this was to avoid buying goods sent over from Great Britain.
Jack tells in a letter to his mother of overtaking a young man with a pack on his back and an ax in his hand on his way to Harvard College.
He was planning to work in a mill to pay his board and tuition.
"We hear in every house we enter the stories and maxims of Poor Richard," the boy wrote in his letter.

"A number of them were quoted in the meeting.