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Title: Elementary history of the United States
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn), 1826-1881 Quackenbos, John D. (John Duncan), 1848-1926, ed
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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free government, and numbers flocked therefrom other parts of the new world and from Europe. Inthree years Philadelphia grew more than I^ew York haddone in fifty years. But Penn did not profit by its pros-perity. He was unjustly deprived of his rights in thecolony, and died in poverty. LESSON XX. INDIAN MISSIONS.—FRENCH EXPLORERS. 1. Puritan Life.—The Puritans were moral andindustrious, but stern and formal. They cropped theirhair close to their heads, and were opposed to wigs andveils. They thought it wicked for women to wear lace,silk hoods, or flowing sleeves. They observed the Sab-bath strictly, and commenced it on Saturday evening.They liked very long prayers and sermons, and punishedthose who stayed away from church. With the help ofthe picture, you may look into the parlor and kitchen of awell-to-do )^ew England family of this time. The houseswere comfortably furnished. The windows w^ere glazedwith small panes, and the sills low enough to form )3leas- 1650) PURITAN LIFE. 65
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ant seats.About thewalls hungportraits orprints, andfrom the low ceiling was often suspended an ostrich Qgg. A quaintside-board with its cut glass and old silver; straight-backed chairs ; four-post bedsteads, draped with curtains;higli-backed settles, to keep oS. the wind whistlingthrough the crannies; open fire-places, with andirons,shovel, tongs, and bellows,—were the style. Describewhat is sho^vn in the kitchen, used also as the familysitting-room. 2. The Puritans had fled from England to escape 66 INDIAN MISSIONS. (1646 persecution. Yet, wlien they got the power in the newworld, thej persecuted others. The colony of Massachu-setts Bay, you remember, drove out Eoger Williams.They treated Quakers still worse, fining and whippingsuch as were found within the limits of the colony. Atlast, they even put several Quakers to death. How couldthey think that such cmelty was pleasing to God ? 3. Missions among the Intlians.—Toward theIndians the Puritans showed a better S23irit. John Eli

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