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Excerpt from Textile Education Among the Puritans
Whatever may have been the desires of many to emigrate, travelling to colonize was an expensive matter, available only to the prosperous.
The selective character of the New England colonists was as well understood as it is today, and in a sermon william stoughton said, God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice Grain over into this Wilderness.
The Puritan pioneers were not poverty stricken refugees, and their sufferings were largely due to ignorance of more severe climatic conditions than those of the old country, which they were not prepared to meet, and it was merely a lack of available resources at the first.
It is strictly in line with what is to be presented in this paper on their fertile expedients to provide themselves with cloth that a reference should be made to their domestic ingenuity such as their origin of banking around houses, placing clay between the studding and keeping it in place with clay-boards, now known as clap-boards, anticipating building-paper, by birch bark under shingles which has been known to last over a century, and packing houses with seaweed to keep out all land vermin, later the sub ject material of a patent not yet expired. In their meeting houses was originated the closed pew, in place of open benches of the old country with their inevitable drafts. The origin of foot - stoves has eluded all my searches for an answer, but I cannot learn that they were ever known in England, although the later introduction of large stoves into meeting houses divided at least one parish at the time of the Arminian schism.
Whenever a glimpse of their daily life can be obtained, there is found most fertile resourcefulness of method.
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Whatever may have been the desires of many to emigrate, travelling to colonize was an expensive matter, available only to the prosperous.
The selective character of the New England colonists was as well understood as it is today, and in a sermon william stoughton said, God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice Grain over into this Wilderness.
The Puritan pioneers were not poverty stricken refugees, and their sufferings were largely due to ignorance of more severe climatic conditions than those of the old country, which they were not prepared to meet, and it was merely a lack of available resources at the first.
It is strictly in line with what is to be presented in this paper on their fertile expedients to provide themselves with cloth that a reference should be made to their domestic ingenuity such as their origin of banking around houses, placing clay between the studding and keeping it in place with clay-boards, now known as clap-boards, anticipating building-paper, by birch bark under shingles which has been known to last over a century, and packing houses with seaweed to keep out all land vermin, later the sub ject material of a patent not yet expired. In their meeting houses was originated the closed pew, in place of open benches of the old country with their inevitable drafts. The origin of foot - stoves has eluded all my searches for an answer, but I cannot learn that they were ever known in England, although the later introduction of large stoves into meeting houses divided at least one parish at the time of the Arminian schism.
Whenever a glimpse of their daily life can be obtained, there is found most fertile resourcefulness of method.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - C. J. H. Woodbury
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780267829880
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 34
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ISBN - 9781331366867
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 36
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