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A square roofe without Dormans, with two Lucoms on each side, means, I think, without dormer windows, and with luthern windows. Another church paid a bill for the meeting-house roof and the
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which were one and the same thing; and one church had orders for
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in its meeting-house,--a liberal supply of the now fashionable _y_'s. We read of
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and often in one entry the same word will be spelt in three or four different ways. Here is a portion of a contract in the records of the Roxbury church:
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Sayd John is to fence in the Buring Plas with a Fesy ston wall, sefighiattly don for Strenk and workmanship as also to mark a Doball gatt 6 or 8 fote wid and to hing it. _Sefighiattly_ is
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but who can translate
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Fesy ? can it mean
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In early days nails were scarce,--so scarce that unprincipled persons set fire to any buildings which chanced to be temporarily empty, for the sake of obtaining the nails from the ruins; so each male inhabitant supplied to the new church a certain
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Not only were logs, and lumber, and the use of horses' and men's labor given, but a contribution was also levied for the inevitable barrel of rum and its unintoxicating accompaniments.
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Rhum and Cacks are frequent entries in the account books of early churches. No wonder that accidents were frequent, and that men fell from the scaffolding and were killed, as at the raising of the Dunstable meeting-house. When the Medford people built their second meeting-house, they provided for the workmen and bystanders, five barrels of rum, one barrel of good brown sugar, a box of fine lemons, and two loaves of sugar. As a natural consequence, two thirds of the frame fell, and many were injured. In Northampton, in 1738, ten gallons of rum were bought for £8
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