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J. Crooke, sawyer; R. Miles, alias Plummer, sheerman; A. Lane, wheelright; and J. A.hley, a bachelor.
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June 24, the Rev.Wm. Alderhall; and June 28, John Clement, wheelright, died in the King's Bench prison, and were buried on the dunghill in the backyard.
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Sarah, wife of Enoch Manuel, whose picture appears above, was a daughter of Amos Hardin, a wheelright in Honeycutts Township, and was recognized as a Croatan Indian.
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Bladen Springs boasts of a tan-yard, which will eventually attract about fifty laborers to this locality; also, a carpenter and wheelright ship, two blacksmith shops, and three grog-shops.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 1873
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So RPV, don't go trying to recreate the wheel when you have an expert wheelright already in your house.
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Besides the use of it for the husbandman’s tools, goads, &c. the wheelright commends it for being all heart; if the tree be large, and so well grown as some there are, it will saw into planks, boards and timber, (vide Chap XXX.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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