Home Life in Colonial Days

By: Morse Earle, Alice

Book Excerpt: ...g-and-clay chimney at either end. The house was usually set on sills resting on the ground. The partitions were sometimes covered with a thick layer of mud which dried into a sort of plaster and was whitewashed. The roofs were covered with cypress shingles.Hammond wrote of these houses in 1656, in his Leah and Rachel, "Pleasant in their building, and contrived delightfull; the rooms large, daubed and whitelimed, glazed and flowered;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R6MTH9L
• ISBN13: 9798575812494
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"