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Title: History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Subjects: Plymouth County (Mass.) -- History Plymouth County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ts, and at the westerly end of LeydenStreet, which then extended to the top of Burial Hill.The words, northerly to the rivulet and southwardsto the laud, refer to the first brook, or Shaws Brook,at the north, and Market Street, which then led intothe Nemasket path, the Indian trail to Middleboro.The houses in the first settlement were necessarilyrude, built of planks without frames, covered withthatch ou the roof, and lighted by paper wiudowscovered with oil. Edward Winslow, in a letter ad-dressed probably to George Mortou, dated Dec. 11,1621, says, Briug paper and linseed oil for yourwiudows, with cotton yarn for your lamps. He fur-ther says, Because I expect your comiug unto us, becareful to have a very good bread room to put yourbiscuits in. Let your casks for beer and water be iroubound for the first tier if not more. Let not yourmeat be dry salted ; none can better do it than thesailors. Let your meal be so hard trod in your cask T (- •El ■* V <«! ix- S3 C o 1= e -i. =1 g
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HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH. 79 that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it outwith. Trust not too much on us for corn at this time,for by reason of this last company that came (in the• Fortune, 1621) depending wholly upon us we shallhave little enough till harvest. Be careful to comeby some of your meal to spend by the way; it willmuch refresh you. Build your cabins as open as youcan, aud bring good store of clothes and bedding witliyou. Bring every man a musket or fowling piece.Let your piece be long in the barrel aud fear not theweight of it, for most of our shooting is from stands(rests). Bring juice of lemons and take it fasting;it is of good use. For hot waters aniseed water isthe best; but use it sparingly. If you bring any-thing for comfort in the country, butter or sallet oilor both is very good. Our Iudiun corn even thecoarsest maketh as pleasant meal as rice; thereforespare that unless to =peud by the way. The absence of glass windows was, however, by nomeans an indication o

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