Spinning wheel, restored, marked with brass plate reading, "This is the spinning wheel of Betsy Mather who was eleven years of age in 1807 and who married Weston Shattuck. She was an accomplished weaver of fine linen. Later owned and used by Eliza Lydia Shattuck, eldest child of Betsy Mather and given by her to her niece Mary J. Havens (Mrs. T.M. Robinson) the granddaughter of Betsy Mather. Restored by Roscoe Havens, 1929". From the History Information Station: Late 18th or early 19th century. History: Eliza Shattuck Lee brought this spinning wheel to California from Essex, New York, around 1865. It had belonged to her mother, who grew up in the 1810s and used it to spin yarn and weave cloth at home. By the time it reached California, however the spinning wheel was a family keepsake, no longer used as a tool. By then, cloth was commercially manufactured on huge power looms in the Eastern states, then shipped to California where Eliza Lee could buy it at a dry goods store. While her fancy clothes came from a dressmaker, most of her everyday clothes she will made a home. She might also have purchased some men['s clothing ready-made, whipped to California form garment manufacturers in New York City