Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . f the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897), p. 53. 5 Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, p. 52, note, quoting Hartford Probate Records, vol. 4. 6 lb., Rhode Island Houses, p. 63 and plate 52. 7 E. Moore, Suffolk Words (1823), p. 212, quoted in New English Dictionary. 18 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY we are not in a position to say whether use at this time represented a decrease oran increase in proportion relative to the earlier decades of the colony. In generalthey corresponded in number t
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . f the Puritans, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 33 (1897), p. 53. 5 Isham and Brown, Connecticut Houses, p. 52, note, quoting Hartford Probate Records, vol. 4. 6 lb., Rhode Island Houses, p. 63 and plate 52. 7 E. Moore, Suffolk Words (1823), p. 212, quoted in New English Dictionary. 18 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY we are not in a position to say whether use at this time represented a decrease oran increase in proportion relative to the earlier decades of the colony. In generalthey corresponded in number to the number of rooms on a floor—a single one inthe houses with end chimney, two in houses with central chimney, but, if we maytrust old views,1 in certain instances there were three: the Corwin house and theundated Governor Bradstreet house. A feature which has been thought to undergo a definite evolution with time,and thus incidentally to furnish an indication of date, is the projection of thesecond story over the first, common also in England, which appears in many. Figure 7. The Bridgham house ( Juliens ), BostonFrom C. Shaw: Description of Boston (1817) houses in the colonies, more usually as a framed overhang. It was not uncommonfor the lower ends of the second-story posts to be carved into pendants or ministers house at Cape Ann in 1657 was to be Jotted ouer one foote Another reference, which reveals the terms then used, occurs in Bostonrecords for 1663: Upon complaint of sundry inhabitants, of hurt done and further danger by the lownesof Jetties ouer the towne land it is therefore ordered that noe Jettie nor pendill y4 shallbe erected but shall be full 8 foot in height from the ground. . .3 It is not to be assumed from this protest that jetties were then first cominginto use—a sufficient reason for it would be the closer upbuilding of the the houses we have been studying, the Narbonne house, like the west- 1 See note, p. 29. 2 Waters, H
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