Here is an insight into the missionary's wife's experience gained from Mercy's correspondence with friends back in her native Massachusetts:
Historian Weston Merrill writes that "Mrs. Whitney's letters back home brought her very near to the women of Pittsfield [Massachusetts]. She wrote of such matters as her efforts to teach the willing natives to make butter, quoting direct from her letter, 'settling the milk in gourd, shells and skimming the cream with seashells, the food and milk being kept on high benches whose legs stood in seashells filled with oil or their food would at once be filled with filthy insects'." As a result, we are told, the ladies of the Free Will Society of Pittsfield's First Church sent her 24 milk pans, 12 small pans for the oil, 6 skimmers and every tin thing they thought could do the job. In return, Mercy sent packets of seashells for every woman who had contributed.
Taken from http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/history/mercy_partridge_whitney.htm
Historian Weston Merrill writes that "Mrs. Whitney's letters back home brought her very near to the women of Pittsfield [Massachusetts]. She wrote of such matters as her efforts to teach the willing natives to make butter, quoting direct from her letter, 'settling the milk in gourd, shells and skimming the cream with seashells, the food and milk being kept on high benches whose legs stood in seashells filled with oil or their food would at once be filled with filthy insects'." As a result, we are told, the ladies of the Free Will Society of Pittsfield's First Church sent her 24 milk pans, 12 small pans for the oil, 6 skimmers and every tin thing they thought could do the job. In return, Mercy sent packets of seashells for every woman who had contributed.
Taken from http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/history/mercy_partridge_whitney.htm
Here is an insight into the missionary's wife's experience gained from Mercy's correspondence with friends back in her native Massachusetts:
Historian Weston Merrill writes that "Mrs. Whitney's letters back home brought her very near to the women of Pittsfield [Massachusetts]. She wrote of such matters as her efforts to teach the willing natives to make butter, quoting direct from her letter, 'settling the milk in gourd, shells and skimming the cream with seashells, the food and milk being kept on high benches whose legs stood in seashells filled with oil or their food would at once be filled with filthy insects'." As a result, we are told, the ladies of the Free Will Society of Pittsfield's First Church sent her 24 milk pans, 12 small pans for the oil, 6 skimmers and every tin thing they thought could do the job. In return, Mercy sent packets of seashells for every woman who had contributed.
Taken from http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/history/mercy_partridge_whitney.htm
Historian Weston Merrill writes that "Mrs. Whitney's letters back home brought her very near to the women of Pittsfield [Massachusetts]. She wrote of such matters as her efforts to teach the willing natives to make butter, quoting direct from her letter, 'settling the milk in gourd, shells and skimming the cream with seashells, the food and milk being kept on high benches whose legs stood in seashells filled with oil or their food would at once be filled with filthy insects'." As a result, we are told, the ladies of the Free Will Society of Pittsfield's First Church sent her 24 milk pans, 12 small pans for the oil, 6 skimmers and every tin thing they thought could do the job. In return, Mercy sent packets of seashells for every woman who had contributed.
Taken from http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/history/mercy_partridge_whitney.htm
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