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Title: Providence in colonial times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910
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Publisher: Boston & New York : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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, one of boiled fresh meat with a propersauce or broth, and one of salt or fresh fish withbrown bread. For drink, good small beer or cider.For breakfast, tea or coffee was served with whitebread, or toasted brown bread, and butter. But ifchocolate or milk porridge was selected to drink, thenno butter was served with the bread. Suppers con-sisted of Milk with hasty pudding, rice, samp,white bread, etc. Or milk porridge, chocolate, tea,coffee, as for breakfast. It was further provided that the several articles l9iS!i View of the First Congregational Church Corner of Benefit and Benevolent Streets, erected 1795,destroyed by fire, 1814. From an old engraving byWilliam Hamlin. / Colontal 1 y to detain of- ng prayers, and there admonish and instruct them in their general articulars of a genteel within ■ the ■irh rreens, ic, oasted, baked, 1 twice ad ■ood H- ^e was served with white ed bro^ 1, and butter. iniik p selected to drink, theij lae br^ ^ is con- • ^ samp, e, tea. ; nicies i
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RJjode Island College 359 and provisions . . . be diversified and changed as totheir succession through the week, . . . with theaddition of puddings, apple pies, dumplings, cheese,etc., to be interspersed . . . as often as may be con-venient and suitable. For this table one dollar aweek was charged. In 1774, amid ominous mutterings from the war-clouds of the Revolution fast gathering on the polit-ical horizon, the last commencement in Mr. Snowsmeeting house was held. The temper of the timeswas shown by the presence in the procession of theCompany of Cadets in uniforms, who, says theGazette, made an elegant and truly military appear-ance, and both in the procession and manoeuvres,which they performed on the College Green, pro-cured universal approbation, and convinced thespectators, that Americans are no less capable ofmilitary discipline than Europeans. After 1774, the well-known First Baptist Meeting-House, at the foot of Waterman Street, was availablefor commencement exercises. Sinc

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