Teen+Life

When Betsy was 14 her dad woke up sick with a high fever and almost everyone else was sick too not including Betsy, George and Mrs.Griscom. Betsy had too rush to the doctor in the cold but her father was okay he was just not well. So Betsy worked as hard as she could to keep them well. Finaly after a while they were all together again. Some time later she was thinking of sewing something for the Philadelphia state fair sewing contest but, since she was a Quaker she didn't use colorful things so it was hard to think of things to sew. Then, one of her sisters thought she should make a sampler that had a bible verse on it. But first she had to ask her dad. Fortunately, he said yes! Then, she had to get to work. Later she found the perfect verse: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabittants thereof, ". Betsy's sampler was of the Liberty Bell with stars shining all around it and the words were on the bell. The nicest part was that she won 1st place! When she was older she became an apprentice with her friend John Ross at a fine dress shop.