. Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley. Stone Tables, Buffets, Altar-Pieces, Bcok-Cafes, Ciller us,. Monuments, Cie/i/igs, and Cbimney- Pieces, Fonts, Iron (Forks. ^abernac le-Fr limes. Proportioned by A L I Q_U O T PARTS, WitHi an APPENDIX of rcwteai PLATES of rmffes for GnJns and Beam!, diflerentSorts of Raftin, and a Variety of [i, ifx. To which are prefixed. The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrka PALLAoro; v,hofe iMcmbcrs arcproportioned by aliquot Parts, in a more cufy Manner than has yet been done. The WHOLE interfperfcd With fure RULES for worl<ing all
. Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley. Stone Tables, Buffets, Altar-Pieces, Bcok-Cafes, Ciller us,. Monuments, Cie/i/igs, and Cbimney- Pieces, Fonts, Iron (Forks. ^abernac le-Fr limes. Proportioned by A L I Q_U O T PARTS, WitHi an APPENDIX of rcwteai PLATES of rmffes for GnJns and Beam!, diflerentSorts of Raftin, and a Variety of [i, ifx. To which are prefixed. The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrka PALLAoro; v,hofe iMcmbcrs arcproportioned by aliquot Parts, in a more cufy Manner than has yet been done. The WHOLE interfperfcd With fure RULES for worl<ing all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pcinunts, ModiUiow, & like, for the irnmcJiate Ufc oC WORKMEN, never nublifheJ brfoi-, in any Langmt^c. By B. L. LONDON, Printed for S. Harping: •And Sold by D. Don, in Ave-MaryLane; and J. Marks, oii ilic Pavement in St. Muruni-Lvx: 175- TITLE PAGE OF A BOOK OWNED .VXD USED KY TIMOTHY CAKTEK. , IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE LAST CENTrRV. AND ALSO BY HIS SON. EEI.^S CARTER. WHO DIED IX 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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