Alice Morse Earle

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1) Home life in colonial days

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English

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Could you identify a sausage gun if you had to? How about a plate warmer or a well-sweep? Any idea how the term log-rolling really originated? Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), a prolific popular historian and the first American to chronicle everyday life and customs of the colonial era, describes what these and many other obscure utensils were and how they were used. She also conveys a vivid picture of home production of textiles, colonial dress, transportation,...

2) Stage-coach and tavern days

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Earle, Alice Morse

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English

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Excerpt: "In reverent and affectionate retrospective view of the influences and conditions which had power and made mark upon the settlement of New England, we are apt to affirm with earnest sentiment that religion was the one force, the one aim, the one thought, of the lives of our forbears. It was indeed an ever present thought and influence in their lives; but they possessed another trait which is as evident in their records as their piety, and...

3) Curious punishments of bygone days

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Earle, Alice Morse

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Patterson Smith Reprint series in criminology law enforcement and social problems. Publication no. 33

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Patterson Smith

Pub. Date

1969

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English

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Colonial American justice was harsh with transgressors: liars were bound to the whipping-post and scolding women sentenced to the ducking stool. Derived from court records, newspapers, diaries, and letters, this illustrated volume offers authentic views of many traditional forms of chastisement. These punitive measures were taken against petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath-breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad-singers, fortune-tellers,...

4) The Sabbath in Puritan New England

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Earle, Alice Morse

Publisher

Singing Tree Press

Pub. Date

1968

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English

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A Dusty Tomes Audio Book in Cooperation with Spoken Realms A Major US Historian Series The Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1891. Note-This book is "read as written". It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain. I. The New England Meetinghouse II. The Church Militant III. By Drum and Horn and Shell IV. The Old-fashioned Pews V. Seating the Meeting VI. The Tithingman and the Sleepers VII....