Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . Allar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obellfques,Pedejiah, forSun-Dlcils,Bujlos, andStone Tables,Bcok-Ctifes,delifigs, andIron trorks. Propoitioiicd by A L I Q_U O T PARTS. Withf an APPENDIX of Fcurteai PLATES of rnJfes for Gndns and Bcnms, diflercnci^orts of Rtiftcrs, and a Variety of licofi, ^:c. To which arc prefixed. The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrka Palladio; Vvhofe Members arcproportioned by aliquot Parts, in a more cafy Manner than lias yet been done. Tlie WHOLE intcrfpcifcJ With Aire RULES for working all the Varieties of
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . Allar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obellfques,Pedejiah, forSun-Dlcils,Bujlos, andStone Tables,Bcok-Ctifes,delifigs, andIron trorks. Propoitioiicd by A L I Q_U O T PARTS. Withf an APPENDIX of Fcurteai PLATES of rnJfes for Gndns and Bcnms, diflercnci^orts of Rtiftcrs, and a Variety of licofi, ^:c. To which arc prefixed. The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrka Palladio; Vvhofe Members arcproportioned by aliquot Parts, in a more cafy Manner than lias yet been done. Tlie WHOLE intcrfpcifcJ With Aire RULES for working all the Varieties of Raking IVlembcis in Ai«.v///j, MochHiom, & like, for the immcJiate Vk of WORKMEN, never iiublidieJ btfore, in any Laiiguni^c. By B. L. LONDON, Printed for S. Harping: •And Sold by C. DoD, in Ave-Mary-Lam; and J. Marks, on the Pavement in St. iji^- TITLE PAGE OF A )KRS BOOK 0\VXKI> AND ISEI) TIMOTHY CAiriKl!. HITLDKH. IN THK FIKST OF THE LAST CENTURY. AM) BV HIS SON. (ARTKR, WHO DIKD IN builders, Elias Carter, having built several fine churchesin and near Worcester, Massachusetts. The accompa-nying illustrations give a good idea of the book. When the first settlers had erected their houses,they next gave attention to the construction of themeeting house. Not long after came the school house,and still later the town hall. Doubtless the promptnesswith which the people of some of the secondarytowns proceeded to build a meeting house and engagea minister was due in part to the fact that grantsof privileges to establish a plantation were madeupon the express condition that the inhabitants settleand support a learned Orthodox minister of good con-versation. Like the first houses of the settlers, themeeting houses were small rude structures made oflogs squared at the ends. In rare instances they werebuilt of timber, laboriously sawn by hand. One of theearliest of these meeting houses is described as beingtwenty six feet l
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