Shirt maker

title: Shirt Maker

equipment needed: make hand-written receipts with your name on rag paper, copying from the quartermaster's book. Cut and prepare for sewing a linen shirt.

costs: linen

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permissions, etc:

documentation: The Calendar and Quartermaster Books of General George Rogers Clark's Fort Jefferson, Kentucky, 1780-1781 lists receipts of items given to women in payment for making up shirts at the fort. EX: P. 87 "Paid N. Hunter for making ten plain and three ruffled shirts, seven yards calico" or "paid M Murray for making three plain shirts, one pair scissor and one linen handkerchief."

Still trying to find the doc that says George Washington set his slaves to making shirts, and was disappointed they could produce not 9, but only 6 shirts per woman per week.