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Home Who We Are Support Us Events News Contact More The Plymouth Fragment Society Helping Plymouth Families Since 1818 Our Story The Society was founded by Marie de Verdier a young Swedish woman who came to this country as the bride of Lothrop Turner a local sea captain. Arriving around the time of the War of 1812 when Plymouth was experiencing great economic hardship she went about enlisting the people of Plymouth in benevolent work eventually founding the Fragment Society on February 18 1818. Among other things the group collected donations of scraps or fragments of cloth to be remade into garments for the needy. From that time to the present the Society has stood ready to give a helping hand to those who have encountered trying circumstances.