The Working Society continues, with unabated zeal, its unostentatious but highly useful labours. It is pleasant to observe, how one want after another, either of the Church or her Ministers, is supplied by the industrious hands of this small association of females; who manage to earn and to apply to various useful purposes, upwards of $60 per annum.

(Source: The Rev. George W. Freeman, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Raleigh, 1836 Journal of Convention, p. 25)