The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . d, was considered essential to health and comfort,and main can yet remember when every farmer had histobacco-yard, as well as his cornfield. It was to him phvsicin sickness, and a comfort at all times. Most dishes were ofpewter. Forks were hardly known in England before U> silver forks first appeared in Boston after the war of1812. The first houses were of one story, with very steep roofs,mostlv built either of clav and mud. or hew
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . d, was considered essential to health and comfort,and main can yet remember when every farmer had histobacco-yard, as well as his cornfield. It was to him phvsicin sickness, and a comfort at all times. Most dishes were ofpewter. Forks were hardly known in England before U> silver forks first appeared in Boston after the war of1812. The first houses were of one story, with very steep roofs,mostlv built either of clav and mud. or hewn loss, coveredwith poles and thatch. The chimneys, which were usually inthe centre of the building, were commonly of rough stone andclay, or of pieces of wood placed crosswise, the intersticesand outside covered with clay. The fireplaces, made of roughstone, were broad and deep, and were large enough for burn-ing logs four feet long. They had huge fireplaces on eitherside of the entrance, and in the back kitchen. The hearthswere large, with capacious ingles for a seat, from whichuieamed the skv overhead. These houses usually contained 58 but one room, about twenty feet square. The roof may havebeen of shingles and boards, thatch having been prohibitedin consequence of frequent conflagrations. Not long after came frame buildings of two stories in front,sloping down to one in the rear. They almost without ex-ception faced south. Frames, andoften the planking and boards,were of heavy oak. The generalroom of the family was lone: andspacious, lighted on two sides, theothers opening into the lean-to orshed. The windows, which wereC very small and opened on hinges,:-. TC-ere sometimes of oiled paper orgenerally of diamond panes of glass,three or four inches broad, set in of the period of Philips war, when£> of wood, had their second floors project a foot ortwo, that their occupants might, if molested,early house, through openings for the purpose, fire or p
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