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In the years that followed the death of his first wife, Tucker made do with a housekeeper, but early in 1780 he ran into difficulties. After the death of his current housekeeper in February, he lost two replacements in two months. As he told Dr Adams, all he wanted was an old woman to look after an old man.1 Then in a postscript to a letter of 4 April 1780, he wrote, ‘I am at last fixt in an housekeeper, Mrs. Crow, a daughter of Mr. Crow the schoolmaster. If goodness consists in bulk, she must be at least twice as good as [I am]. Notwithstanding her size, she is the least eater and drinker that ever I knew.’2
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Notes
William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, vol. I, p. 194, Tucker to Mrs More, 3 Feb 1781.
Josiah Tucker, Reflections on the Present Low Price of Coarse Wools, Its Immediate Causes, and Its Probable Consequences (1782) p. 9.
John Ramsay McCulloch, The Literature of Political Economy (1845) p. 239.
Thomas Clarkson, The Histoy of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Mason Stone-Trade (1808) pp. 304, 368.
William Seward, Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries, 4th edn (1798) vol. i, p. iv.
Bernard Semmel, The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism (Cambridge, 1970).
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Shelton, G. (1981). A Well-Wisher to All Mankind. In: Dean Tucker and Eighteenth-Century Economic and Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16503-2_11
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